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Every Major Religion Has a Flood Story and Nobody Agrees on What That Means
Noah is the famous one in the Western world, but the flood myth is one of the most widely distributed stories in human history. Mesopotamia had Utnapishtim. India had Manu. Greece had Deucalion. The Aztecs, the Norse, the Yoruba, the Hopi — nearly every major mythological tradition has a version of the same story. A great flood. Survival. Renewal. The question of why is genuinely open.
Every Major Religion Has a Flood Story and Nobody Agrees on What That Means
Noah is the famous one in the Western world, but the flood myth is one of the most widely distributed stories in human history. Mesopotamia had Utnapishtim. India had Manu. Greece had Deucalion. The Aztecs, the Norse, the Yoruba, the Hopi — nearly every major mythological tradition has a version of the same story. A great flood. Survival. Renewal. The question of why is genuinely open.
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