Flood Myths
Flood Myths
I. Australian
Flood Myths
I. Australian
A. During woramba
(Dreamtime flood), Ark Gumana
carrying Noah, Aborigines, and
animals drifted south
Flood Myths
B. Came to rest in the flood
plain of Djilinbadu, can be seen
today
Flood Myths
C. White man’s claim that ark
came to rest in Middle East is a
lie to keep Aborigines in
subservience
Flood Myths
II. Australian (Wiranggu)
Flood Myths
II. Australian (Wiranggu)
A. Djunban was hunting
kangaroo rat with magic
boomerang, hit his sister Mandija
instead
Flood Myths
B. Taught his people how to
make rain
Flood Myths
C. Next day Mandija died,
Djunban did rain-making
ceremony, didn’t pay attention,
made too much rain
Flood Myths
III. Jicarilla (Apache)
Flood Myths
III. Jicarilla (Apache)
A. Before Apaches emerged
from underworld, other people
lived on earth
Flood Myths
B. Dios told old man & old
woman that it would rain for 40
days/nights
Flood Myths
C. People warned to go to top
of four mountains, not to look at
sky or flood
Flood Myths
D. Those who looked at flood=
fish or frogs; sky=birds
Flood Myths
E. 32 people survived the flood,
told Apaches about flood before
they entered the two mountains
Flood Myths
F. Around turn of the millennium,
surface of the earth destroyed
again, by fire
Flood Myths
IV. Skagit (Washington State)
Flood Myths
A. Creator made the earth and
gave four names for it; sun, waters,
soil, forests
Flood Myths
1. Few people, with special
preparation, knew all four names, or
world would change too suddenly
Flood Myths
2. Everyone learned all four names
Flood Myths
B. When people talked to trees
the change came in form of a flood
Flood Myths
C. Giant canoe- 5 people, male
and female of all animals and plants
Flood Myths
D. Water covered everything but
summit of Kobah (Mt. Baker) and
Takobah (Mt. Ranier)
Flood Myths
E. Doquebuth, the new Creator,
born of couple from the canoe, made
people again from soil & bones of
pre-flood people
Flood Myths
V. Kammu (Thailand)
Flood Myths
A. Brother & sister warned by
mouse of coming flood, sealed
themselves inside a drum
Flood Myths
B. Looked for mates, no other
survivors, slept together
Flood Myths
C. After 7 years, child born as a
gourd
Flood Myths
D. People of the different races
came from the gourd
Flood Myths
1. First Rumeet
Flood Myths
2. Then Kammu, Thai,
Westerner, and Chinese
Kammu family
Flood Myths
VI. Pygmy (Africa)
A. Chameleon heard strange noise in a
tree, cut open its trunk.
B. Water came out in a great flood over
earth.
C. First human couple emerged with the
water.
Flood Myths
VII. Bakongo (Africa)
A. Old lady, weary and covered with
sores, arrived in a town called
Sonanzenzi, sought hospitality
B. Refused at all homes except one- told
kind people to flee, Nzambi would
destroy
C. Town was flooded, houses can still be
seen
Flood Myths
VIII. Cameroon (Africa)
A. Girl let a goat eat some of her flour,
goat warned of flood.
B. Only she and her brother escaped,
couldn't find mates.
C. Goat reappeared, said they could
marry, but would have to put a clay pot
with a broken bottom on their roof to
signify that they are relatives.