Cultural Flood Myths (General)

by dulan drift ⌂, Monday, May 21, 2012, 21:49 (4329 days ago)

Was doing a bit of research on Amis myths and legends and it seems the main one is a flood story where a brother and sister escape a great flood on a canoe and finally make landfall on a mountain side and that's where the Amis began (not sure where they started out from). Was looking for something i could turn into a kids play but then got to the part where the brother and sister 'married' and populated the land with lots of children. The interesting thing about it though was how many cultures have got a flood legend that figures prominently in their religous culture. Apart from Noah's Ark, there are hundreds of others from around the world - given the tsunamis we have seen recently you can see how that is going to have a strong cultural impact so it's probably not too surprising really.


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