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| Tradition | Source | Passage | Confidence | Evidence | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biblical | Genesis | Genesis 7:17-24; 8:1-5 | medium | The flood was forty days on the earth... God remembered Noah... and the waters subsided. | record |
| Ainu | Aino Folk-Tales | HONORARY SECRETARIES. / INTRODUCTION. / AINO FOLK-LORE. / I.--TALES ACCOUNTING FOR THE ORIGIN OF PHENOMENA.; lines 610-713 | high | The opening of 'The Man who Married the Bear-Goddess' describes a once-abundant village struck by famine; only the chief's older daughter and younger son survive, and the sister gives the boy a cloth bag so he may buy food and live. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY / THE CATALOGUES OF WOMEN AND EOIAE1701; lines 3421-3527 | low | Heracles slays eleven sons of Neleus; Nestor alone escapes because he is staying in Gerenon. | record |
| Greek | Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 531-624 | high | Prometheus and Pronoia produce Deucalion and Pyrrha, only survivors of the deluge; they have Hellen, ancestor of the Hellenic race, with further descent into Magnesians, Macedonians, Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians. | record |
| Finnish/Karelian | Kalevala: The Epic Poem of Finland | JOHN MARTIN CRAWFORD. / THE KALEVALA. / PROEM / BOOK II; lines 17416-17614 | high | Untamoinen's warriors kill Kalervo's people and kindred, burn dwellings, and leave only Kalervo's daughter and her unborn child; the daughter serves the hostile army in her father's halls. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 12642-12768 | medium | When the sentence comes and the earth’s surface boils up, Noah is told to carry into the Ark one pair of every kind, his family with an exception, and the few who believed. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 3678-3891 | medium | The believers are brought forth from the city, but only one family of Muslims is found there, and signs are left for those who dread chastisement. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8862-9028 | high | Noah is told to carry into the ark a pair of every kind and his family except one already sentenced, and not to plead for the wicked because they will be drowned. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | CHAPTER X. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XI. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 19573-19653 | medium | The sentence is executed; the oven pours forth water; Noah is commanded to carry animal pairs, his family except one already condemned, and believers into the ark; few believe with him. | record |
| Islamic | The Koran (Al-Qur'an) | IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD. / CHAPTER XXIII. / ENTITLED, THE TRUE BELIEVERS; REVEALED AT MECCA. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 25890-26000 | high | Noah is commanded to make the ark; when the oven pours forth water, he must take one pair of every animal species and his family except those sentenced to destruction; the unjust will be drowned. | record |
| Celtic Welsh | The Mabinogion | PEREDUR THE SON OF EVRAWC / GERAINT THE SON OF ERBIN / THE DREAM OF RHONABWY / PWYLL PRINCE OF DYVED; lines 7019-7112 | medium | At the Gorsedd of Narberth, thunder and dense mist occur; afterward the land appears empty of cattle, dwellings, smoke, fire, people, and inhabited houses, and all companions are lost except the four. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1224-1310 | medium | The explanation says Ovid follows a prevailing tradition closely resembling Scripture concerning divine determination to punish the earth by a deluge because human wickedness was great. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1463-1562 | high | The fable summary says Neptune commands Triton to sound his shell so the waters retire, and that Deucalion and Pyrrha are the only persons saved from the deluge. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1622-1709 | high | The fable introduction states that Deucalion and Pyrrha re-people the earth by casting stones behind them as prescribed by Themis; they resolve to pray to the deities and go to the waters of Cephisus. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII / LITERALLY TRANSLATED WITH NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS / INTRODUCTION. / BOOK I.; lines 225-247 | high | The blood-born race becomes impious; Jupiter transforms Lycaon into a wolf and destroys humans and animals by deluge, except for Deucalion and Pyrrha, who renew humanity by throwing stones after the waters abate. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 1676-1772 | medium | The couple tries to kill their single cottage goose for the divine guests; the goose flees toward the gods, who forbid its death and announce punishment for the impious neighborhood while telling the couple to go to the mountain summit. | record |
| Roman | The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV | BOOK THE TWELFTH. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 8398-8452 | medium | Hercules marches into Messenia, makes himself master of Pylos, and Neleus and his children are killed except Nestor, later ruler of Pylos. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN. / THIRD DYNASTY--OLYMPIAN DIVINITIES.; lines 1173-1257 | medium | The gods announce the wicked village's doom, lead the couple to a hill, show them a watery plain where the village stood, and transform their cottage into a temple; the couple asks to serve there and die together. | record |
| Greek/Roman | Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | SATURN. / RHEA (OPS). / DIVISION OF THE WORLD. / THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF MAN.; lines 746-830 | high | Because humanity became degenerate, the gods resolved to destroy mankind by flood; Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha alone are saved because of piety. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXV: THE ELVES / CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS; lines 12224-12362 | high | Lif and Lifthrasir emerge from Hodmimir's forest, where they fled from Surtr's fire, slept through the destruction, were nourished by morning dew, and later take possession of the renewed earth for their descendants. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CHAPTER XXVI: THE SIGURD SAGA / CHAPTER XXVII: THE STORY OF FRITHIOF / CHAPTER XXVIII: THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS / CHAPTER XXIX: GREEK AND NORTHERN MYTHOLOGIES; lines 12980-13082 | high | Another interpretation presents Ragnarok and world-submersion as a Northern version of the Deluge; Lif and Lifthrasir survive to repeople the world like Deucalion and Pyrrha, and Gimli receives surviving gods. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | CONTENTS / LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING; lines 456-592 | high | Giants wage war against Buri and Börr; Börr marries Bestla; Odin, Vili, and Ve slay Ymir; Ymir's blood causes a deluge in which only Bergelmir escapes by boat with his wife. | record |
| Norse | Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas | L. E. R. / CHAPTER XXI: BALDER / CHAPTER XXII: LOKI / CHAPTER XXIII: THE GIANTS; lines 8535-8655 | high | Ymir is slain by the gods; his progeny drown in his blood; Bergelmir and his wife escape to Jötun-heim and become ancestors of the giants. | record |