Almost every ancient culture has a flood myth that describes a man building a craft in order to genetically survive the destruction of the Earth with water by gods.
One of the oldest flood myths is the Sumerian "Eridu Genesis.
" The Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh," the Laotian "Legend of Khun Borom," the Finnish "Kalevala," the Indonesian "Batak," The Maori "Ngati Porou," The Malaysian "Temuan," the Norse "prose Edda,"the Irish "Lebor Gabala Erenn," The Indian "Shatapatha Brahmana," the Aztec "Codex Chimalpopoca," and the Inca "Viracocha," all have similar flood myths involving gods and a flood "Hero" of some sort.
Joseph Campbell called this "The Transformation of Myth Through Time.
" His theory was that there might have been one cosmological event from which all others are inspired.
The telling of the story through generations and migrations distorts a universal truth that exists somewhere in the consensus.
The most interesting legend exists in a Chinese historical account of a global flooding of the continents that turned mountaintops into islands.
The scientific community understands the continuity of certain civilizations through time and the evidence for a destruction of all humans by water just does not exist in the archeological, historical, and genetic records.
We are asked to believe that all races descended from a white, if not an Albino, descendant of Adam and his three white sons.
Science would expect a better explanation.
They do understand that there was a global rise in the tides at a time that approximates the flood of Noah.
The best corroborative evidence for this is the ancient Chinese historical account of "The Flood That Reached the Heavens.
" The Chinese "Book of History" states that during the reign of the 1st Dynastic King, Yao, a global rise in sea level filled the valleys to the mountaintops and took ten years to irrigate.
The most fascinating thing about this myth was that it was to have taken place in 2345 B.
C.
This also happens to be the date given in the timeline of Inches in The Great Pyramid.
It is not surprising, therefore, to find that the Chinese records describe precisely this sequence of events and this geographical location.
The dated period in which this Deluge is placed by the Chinese Shu-King, includes the date of the Deluge of Genesis.
2 The dates of the Shu-King, as will be seen, are also based on the calendar datum and cycles of the First book of Genesis.
The Chinese Noah - the Fu-hi of Chinese mythology - is not only mentioned in relation to the Deluge, but in connection with his sacrifice after the Deluge of certain of the animals saved with him (Gen.
Viii, 20), and in connection with the rainbow covenant of Genesis ix, 8-17 ( 196b).
The Chinese date for the epoch of Fu-hi is the date in Genesis for the epoch of the house of Noah.
2 The Deluge date of Genesis, 2345-2344 B.
C.
, falls within the reign of the Chinese King Yaou, who reigned, according to the Shu-King, from 2356 B.
C.
to 2254 B.
C.
(W.
G.
Old.
"The Shu-King," Appendix, pp.
301, 302).
Chinese records accordingly identify a great deluge within this reign.
In the Shu-King (ibid.
, Section V) Yu, the Chinese engineer and administrator, is represented addressing the Emperor Yaou as follows:- "When the floods were lifted to the heavens, spreading far and wide, surrounding the hills and submerging the mounds, so that the common people were bewildered and dismayed...
I drained off the nine channels, directing them into the four seas; I dug out ditches and canals and brought them into the rivers.
" -The Great Pyramid, Davidson and Aldersmith, pp.
428-429