in
HON. LITT.D.,
PIO
;
to think and
modes of
word,
beliefs
be traced
moral and
savagery
that
they
ment,
that
I
on
these
of savagery under
civilization is the
the
drawn
on
into
wider
and
subjects
with
the matter in hand.
have
a different
reading, I
the
whole
;
of
of
the
beatific visions of
a blissful future
amber of a pellucid style?
These
are
the
true
glories
of
of
Israel
crudities recorded alike,
the future.
i(>th
.
Tahitian tradition
Polynesia
Similar
Karen
the Pacific
clay
Stories
American
stories
clay
Belief
of
PAGE
3
4
S
5
6
8
9
10
lO
II
12
12
14
15
i6
'7
22
22
24
29
29
29
African
and
and
Borneo
Descent
Australia .
.
49
^
Story of the Fall, a story of the origin of death .
5^
. •
the
insect,
and
Moon,
the
the
duck . .
-58
. .
59
Akamba
story
. 62
Calabar
the
sheep
it
66
.
.
.
motive for
executing murderers
Bodily marks to protect
Need of
of the
.
> .
. .
narrative
beast
.103
CHAPTER
IV
The
104
105
106
Modern
discovery
of
the
original
Babylonian
story
107
no
no
Modern
discovery
of
the
original
Babylonian
story
The
—the embarkation—
the raven—the
flood story
story in later times .
Hierapolis
on
the
Euphrates
with King
in
Phrygia
of
Ogyges
....
consequent
on
opening
.
philosopher
Story
of
.
. . . 177
Vogul
.179
The
Sikhim and
211
.214
A
Chinese
emperor
.
.
and Engano .
and Rotti
.
.
.
.
Queensland
and
Melanesia
Stories
....
.
.
^
XIX
PAGE
280
281
.
. . .
....
.
.
.
. . . .
.
.
story
the Ottawas
.
. .
told by the
.
.
Coola Indians
British
Columbia
the
Babylonian
Ancient
Pacific
Pacific
probably
reminiscences
352
Babylonian
360
All
flood
of Babel
Inscriptions
of
Chaldees
362
364/
365
36s
366
367
369
370
371
of Babel
383
383
Stories
as to the origin of the diversity of tongues in Greece, Africa,
Assam, Australia, and America .....
Similar ceremonies
of
Calabar
Retributive
.
modern.
Arab
rite
Koryaks,
the pieces
and
the
of
Gezer
418
418
421
.
458
Mother-kin
among
460
Why
Georgia
the
in
Scotland
. 488
The
.
.
.
. 495
.
.
.
•
of
Amiens .
aborigines of
.
. .
.
520
widowers and widows .
.
530
.
.562
The
two
.
Formosa . 565
to remark
first and second
chapters
of
Genesis. In the first chapter, we read how, on the fifth
day
creatures that live in the water or in the air
; and
how
on ,
and incidentally
sexes,
which
the statements
the
glory
tradictory
tradictory
here
all,
which
is
birds and beasts
narrative he begins
nadir of the divine
in the
the
been created
him
com-
these
playmates,
the
trees
behind
which
fig-leaves
with
their
nakedness.^
the earlier
Jehovistic
artist
and
undignified
manner of it—made out of a piece of her lord
and
master,
after all the lower animals had been created in a regular
and
human
of
Jehovistic is
Accordingly,
the
childlike
stones
ages and countries
tales
I
will
adduce
in
;
nostrils of the
to
and
his
Babylonians also
wheel,^
the clay was left over,
and n^ight
and fifty
a
Apollodorus,
Bibliotheca^
i-
which xiv.
ruined
but
late
autumn
Prometheus
solitary and
hill
above
scene, like
existence
holly-oaks,
scented
all
cut
mountain
side.;
walls of
farewell
autumn
days
of
almost
pathetic
winter
the
enchanted
desolate
stories
of
yesterday. Thus the
of
plished
Kauhanga-nui, and hence
name, and when he
wife, and the pair became
the pro-
:
 
mere recital
have re-
peatedly told me it was a tradition among them before
any
foreigner
that the
Inhabitants.^
Second
red
by
them
pronounced
as
if
written
aboriginal
part
of
the
mother of
the human
can
hardly
him
? He
created
man
at
first
from
the
earth,
did he form her
trace their genea-
building
tongues.
According
to
them
people
The
the Red
as
associated
up
to
of
the
father
of
the
Tartar
creation ^of
lived quite
from his ribs, and falling to the ground it grew
long and
to
return
to
made models
Tetata.^
various
animals,
world
was
lations
from
the
Creator.
2
Rev.
knew she
men. Qat
come
to
life. Three days he hid them away, and three days
more
He set them up
by little
Then
pair husband and
it
earth. Then
one
of
a
man
by
might
see
and
gods
work
pot-bellied,
so
Kombengi
produced
a
of
the
figures,
transferring
a
female
figure.
It
now
had
That
to Wangi,
(Batavia,
1912-1914),
kundig
the man and
the rest of
Stories of
lar^e
vain.
and infused into
his veins the
the name
a curious
 Cotton
after
^Tas^^
an
of
the
scales
and
weighed
the lips of the
But Sihai was like
wife nor
budded
and
blossoms
fell
to
the
ground
and
from
them
men
are
descended.
eye came the
to
have
been
daselbst (Barmen,
He
fashioned
them
the
leavings
of
the
one of
other
part,
Tau
Dalom
Tana
came
to be
allowed to
brought
the
articles,
beings, took
and
time he said,
the
near the fire, they melted. So the Creators perceived that
they could not make
put the noses on
they
to repair
back in
at
still occupy. But
hurry.^
The
man and woman.
woman,
Tugli-
bung.
They
Captain
Lewin
IheCTgatrJn
the
following
and put
dog
to
barked
and
frightened
it
away.
That
is
a
the
the
nor
death
he found
that the
in
the
Hkeness
of
a
man
Indra,
by the horses.
into
it
the
make
he
called
variation,
by
the
Munda
Singbonga, first fashioned
man
and
endure
at
their
could
and
then
to
wove its
the
Sun-god
im-
parted
life
to
covered
with
water.
Then
Thakur
Jiu's
16) pp.
201 sq.
a
trampled
but
^-horse^
Jiu
was
meantime Day-horse
the
earth
passed
it imme-
with
chains,
raise
the' earth on his back, it will remain and not fall into
the
short
time
the
caused
covered
the
Jiu
and
informed
were
Pilchu
Haram
2
froth
Toradjan
and
Indian
legends
of
God
and
was away
he
wandered
about
the
world.
In
into
the
I
flamingo. Having
done so,
to
culti-
the
hoe,
,and
gave
him
two
eyes.''
He
did
so
and
hear the
noise of the dance and the speech of great men, and for
that
sent
first in
and
left
there for seven days. At the end of the seven
days
God
cried,
remains
over,
he
pours
it
on
he
makes
clay
for
a
man
and
laugh,
where-
upon
are
the
descendants
of
the
clay
them a man and the other a woman. He laid
the
his
house.
He
kept
The
two
people
as they
were. Their
But
they
can
climb
called
Morning-Star
Woman.^
The
the
The
Kawakipais,
human race were created.
in^iians of
under
for if
brother came
nothing
but
way to the
ants, which produced
for
caused
certain
black
lost their way and
thereof he made
up
against
the
sky.
a
against
the
other
woman
thus
created
the
it away.
to
the
The
Hopi
apparently goddesses, both
named Huruing Wuhti, lived in houses in the ocean, one of
them
in
the
east,
and
the
by
their efforts caused dry land to appear in the midst of
the
water.
Nevertheless
was no living
bird
soon
The Pima Indians,
Du Pratz
after examining it, and finding it well formed, he blew
upon
his work, and forthwith that little man had life, grew,
actpd,
walked,
and
first
tion, the ancient traditions of his tribe being silent
as
that man and woman were made in the same way.
So
bruit it
woman out of
Mexico,
fell
to
them
of
metal.
His
perseverance
was
Those
that
were
to
shorn, with
given
and the
When the
and
figures
of
^
the
beetle, having
parents
was red. For the Hebrew word
for man in general is adam^
the
word
for
ground
is
adamah,
and
and
almost
necessary
reject the hypothesis
believe,
man
was
in
in
from
American
of
*J^^.
coyotes.
At
o*'^ * ^^^.
first
they
walked
on
toe,
two
last, progressing
The Crane
a
pair
of
Ojibway
cranes,
changed
by
the
Omaha
making
it
went back
to their
his friends used to wrap him
up in a
buffalo skin with
 
Do not face.
^^°^^'
child,
union the Indians
crow-like
colour
tradition.
reptiles,
the
influence
to
separate
themselves.
a god, and
appeared at festivals,
lions with
Others
claimed
and attired
look
funeral
ceremonies
which
brute.
The
killed
village
him.^
Many
it
think
ferocious
reptiles
their
people to
of the
A
day the
guilty brother,
or one
ashore,
is
lamented
Tabou
et
That
her husband farewell,
from
eating
was
that sort^ Some of the Land Dyaks of Borneo tell
a
that
if
her
stories of
the clan
as
a
Further,
or
turtle-doves,
Stories
of
mountain.
the
and so forth, every
afterwards
Genootschap,
Bevolking
Afdeeling,
Meer
Oeloes,
2
(Amster-
would be the in-
animals
^X
their
descent,
nor
eat
the
flesh
believed
to
result
from
crocodiles,
ser-
Molucca
Islands
enter-
tain
scended
story
about
the
vicious
the origin of
occupy the
border
of
(dik)
was
busy
Dutch
New
picking
fish
threw
them
on
the
beach,
clay. They
a fire of
time that a little bamboo burst with a pop in
the heat, the
ears,
eyes,
mouth,
and
nostrils
speak, they
Their
human
beings,
he
had
a
the same
sickness
the
descendants
of
these
first
bird
{diegge\
which
have
be acquainted
with water
fire.
watching
a
kindled
selves at in cold weather ; and it was the astonishment
our
so
now the
never
fails
these
dramatically by
them at
at the
the mysteries
or rites
they apparently
of beast
up
the
sacred
enclosure.
There
presumed to
be entirely
and
became
monies in
as
developed
out
of
of
evolution
midst of
(inurdus or
came the
crow, and
Being as
on the
sandhills which
as they
the sunshine, till
by
with
under
dry
baric.
To
time there
along the
the country. These
and they
presented the
doubled up
into a rounded mass, in which only the outline of the
different
the
other.
First
of
all
bored
with
the
as the case may
clans which are
embryos in the
Seed,
the
Large
Parakeet, and
fire-stick.
After
that,
human
pher
Em-
individual
who
^
their own
the
that
this
development
was
effected
by
the
agency
of
two
powerful
beings,
whom
were
Sicily may
abysses
evolution.
taken
and the
Roughly speaking,
these two
theories still
of^th^'^paii
There
food
grew
abundantly
and
her
intro-
to
tell
the
sad
of
death
the knowledge
to eat
surely die.
had they tasted
his command by eating
He
cursed
the
serpent,
mankind all
the days
her
out of which he
the culprits
to replace
garden.
bethink
drives
while
throughout
our attention
we
lit
n°arrative
originally
editor,
be
so,
another direction.
Life but
that man
^
partake
of
it
by
single
not
pro-
hibiting
man
missed
in the
a
tree
of
death
further
recommended
of knowledge
the
from eating
one and
by creating a
birds to
with the tenor of
on him
But
should the serpent
he
of life and so lived for ever. The supposition is
renew
their
not
so
extravagant
as
it
 old
172
sqq.
1
the
obtain-
which
parallel versions of the
to
fair degree
the original
of the
man,
the advantage
him in his
to
man.
the
of^an^iil^
death.
toil, they
could live '
garden,
and
where
free
that
bore
fruits
of
of
the
one
so far as I know, to
point
Babylonian
Literature
(New
passage
1
901),
pp.
361
sq.
bethought
of
changing
the
message
But
That
is
why
men
have
youth.
If
only
the
serpent
message and deceived our first mother,
we should have
the
idea
of
immor-
origin
of
PERVERTED
MESSAGE
53
messenger.
So
the
message
and
said,
Then
he
went
the
wrong
message,
she
was
still
running
moonlight
with
the
will
not
which
to the
death: the
heated
altercation
the people
out, because it
have come
told him,
more.
Nandi
The
of
and
to
drink
out
of
when
you
beer
from
the
.absence. If
to
drink
milk
out
of,
to
men;
but
and
from
a
Moon who employed
the dog to
unscrupulous
animal
misused
his
messenger is engaged
the mission
is said to
tell
them,
bound
stick and
origin
of
a
the early
so
 
again.''
Now
the
tortoise
to
his forgetfulness
where the
grass
the men
It
struck
ever
since.
That
is why every hare has a cleft upper lip to this
day,
and
moon.
But
withdrawn
animal,
to
him,
for
men,
say
know that
*
if
a
*'
the
right. So the frog kept on to the right, and when he came
to
the
that when they died it would
be
an
end
of
where the
to gobbling it
immortality
are
of
the
Bush
(London,
a
great
was
by
means
cooked their food at
goat
from
he lingered
saw
 
you,
for
you
will
What the
and
that bears
the evil
deliver them.
The story
the two
that
chanced
{Berlin, 1887-88)
did not
you
looked
he
give
the
message
end of you.
for you will
God
the one which
are
reversed.
enthusiasm,
by
^'^^
^^^
were and
shallow
sceptic
corpses would so much
failure of his mission, telling him how, when he preached
the glad tidings
word he said.
who
so bungled
the honest
down
to
this
very
of
time men sent a
died
deliver the
message. But
dog
sat
Nobody
had
However,
away
he
came
 
{1907) p. 205.
^toryof
the,
sheep,
creation
dead man. The
waiting
and
buried him. Afterwards the
the
is through his fault that we
all die.^
of death is ascribed to the
Bantu
is widely
messenger,
to make men
make
who bore
lizard
as
sent
the
chameleon
to
to
eat
the
purple
berries
a
mulberry
belly, with
flies, and
One
who
the chame-
word
die. And died they have ever
since
from
*'
to tell the people that they should not die. If
he had only
the
same
form
by
other
killed.
the
Basutos,^
the
Wide
altered
form,
chameleon slowly
mouth,
whereupon
they
from
Africa,
entrusted
the
gospel
message.
lizard
They
say
beings com-
by
the
God
to
men
rise again.
outran
the
brought
Every
 
shall
not
die.
day
hear
the
a
the purpose
tempting
proposal.
 
the lizard
{Enygrus\
shall
a
south
time
the
Creator
^^^of i^^^
somewhat different
by the
Tamanachiers, an
Indian tribe
obtained
it.
like
the
serpents
not
die
merely cast
immortality of serpents
a Samoan story
council
to
proposal
skins like shellfish, and
should
die.
and
as
the
gods
still cast their
unhappy
chance
it
stream
to
change
her
skin
their
skins
and
that
at
first
death
told
men
their
old
of
New
stepped
into
water,
Guinea,
In those days there
off her withered old
a
her
she was his granny.
at
to the
and returned
forward.
And
sure
enough,
Similar
story,
with
some
 
Salomo-Inseln
(Dres-
esians
(Oxford,
1891),
p.
265.;
you
two
saying
old
on a
not know her
to the
water and
power
°{l^^
tyum,
But
one
day
his
two
grandchildren,
young again
storyoTthe
a
in-
convenience
heirs,
who
which
it
a
the
side
of
a
certain which
a
handsome
funeral
was
funeral
feast
the ghost. In
;
consequence
of
torisefrom
which
of growth
the dead
resur-
^^y-
rection
after
renew their youth
unknown,
or
slumber. But an evil spirit
somehow
The Wotjobaluk,
women, some of them
 
said,
to
or underground,
nothing is said about
it probable
that the
three days
The
Fijians
again/'
But
And
he
prevailed.^
Upoto
moon hastened
shalt
to
rest
thee
will
Bahnar
mortality
of
skin,
but
apparently
used
to
They say
t>y
full-
time
men
multiplied
to
could not
many African
assigning
Thus
all
the
of a contest
mortality,
a
animals, who
doomed
skin are
but that
to man, but he had not gone far before he
fell in with
path.
The
bird
looked
longingly
tell you
snake
tartly,
people
grow
old
out of
perversion of the
within
hearing,
and
when
thej7
messenger,
Hebrew
FaUo°Man
actually enjoyed by them, and that but for a crime,
an
theserpent,
commentators,
who
have
been
for the
primitive
the
hardness
of
his lot, and God had so far compassion on him
that
he
should
such marks are
manded by the
that
chief
tribal
badges
mark
consists
person.^
increase
his
even
the
explanation
seems
general. Every
member of
a tribe
was a
tends to
show that
they are
crieth unto me from the ground,
by
a
from the ground, which
and
regarded
prevents
jeopardized
the
even
culprit, for they
shore.-^ Clearly
to put
-
into the
an
island
wife's
village.
His
wife
in
her
village.
The
the
chief
his
own
;
drinking
cocoanuts
would
poison
body would
terrible
death.
slain
the slayer,
hold
indirect
communi-
homicides
cation with, the village of his victim. His seclusion is there-
bJ^Kikuyu
of
homicide
ought
ing
caused
by
time by
one else
washed
his
hands
will
infectious-
ness
of
which
at once run
allowed
is
a
common,
his
own
hands
is an unclean animal. All blood
which has left the veins is
unclean and
wilderness, there
it
to
we read that, defiled
ghost
of
his
restlessly
over
the
fy^jfp^
he
had
his
mother,
and
barren
Echinadian
soil
from
its
banks,
since
the
perpetration
took up
had
found
rest
for
also
divided
received
nothing
at
wrong
at
sacri-
an ox,
sacrificed
to
by
the
sacrifices were not offered, it
was
wards,
and
the
elders.
to the serious-
the
special
garb
prescribed
in
year
until
the
might
he
return
a foreigner,
Kikuyu
Again,
we
have
seen
that
ceremony
jg
by contact.
a pig
they feast
with an
and also
murderer to
and
one
river.
After
the
per-
homicide
is
observed
to mollify
^j^g
his victim s
case he
when
of
he
hands
kindred
the
the
primitive
peoples
homicide is
The fear of
the
motive for
Necessity
their
[^g
 
that they thereby
three
days
were
of the body
for tasting
Tupi
slaughtering
the
captive.*
at
his
guards,
decease,
doubly
curious precautions which I have described. The drawing
of blood
from his
own body,
to the preservation
that
he
had
accepted a
puts
vanquished
but
the
kinsmen
of
his
principle
is
the
same.
The
swoop down
cash, or whatever
?
corhmunity as himself, since it is only to men of
the
same
not
less
dreaded
friends
to
their
him
^nd ^^'
parrot
™^
To
protect
for
several
must
special
plates.
In
man
between the eyebrows, and to rub in medicines into the
incisions, so
to
purified.
The
from
pursuing
them
any
farther.
a
raid,
the
himself
slain
by
he
East
Africa,
when
a
his rub a
head
uppermost,
round
his
neck
ghost may not
as
follows.
 When
a
who
;
man^s wrists
washed,
meat. He is
home.
time after.
When death
from the
throat and
homicides,
the
slain.
Even when no mention
still safely assume that
for warriors after
when a Some
by
the
dip
their
own
homes.
on six
painted
red
and
white.*
Dandkil,
Galla
und
Somdl
tive
/'flJ/Zfi
^(London,
drinking goat's
in battle paints
black circle round
slain
enemies
to
victims would blind
a
or salt, nor look
covered almost
mud, and
ii.,
Anthropology^
o^
tattoo
by
red.
even
child nor see
Indian and
;
remains secluded
for
himself
likeness
of
a
small
bird,
uttering
a
to
they hear the
pass
the
turmeric,
nor
That
these
to make
a great
been
a
Elsewhere
I
have
conjectured
that the
^^ ^
taking him
that he must
an
death caused
142,
145.
Journal
of
the
xv.
suppose
that,
all
over,
like
a
Fijian
round
his
from
the
nose
to
the
chin,
and
from
with
a
delicate
of
cow's
between the
buffalo. Thus
—for Cain means
affixed
the
mark
to
Cain
Bibikai
instead of a
omniscience.
Here
in tiie
the
narrative
it
murdered
in
the
Biblical
i^
rather
but
the
than
the
blood,
Abel
which
conception
and with a
of
a
ghost,
to
bloody phantom or only by the dolorous voice of his
victim's blood shrieking after him. Still
it
cannot
we
blood
that
is
away
or
|^i^^^?^
soaked
into
the
 T^^^^^
Job,
looking
for
bring
blood
great
aggravation
alike
of
the
multitudinous
voices
of
the
unavenged human
leaving
^
of
and said,
to
me.
between
us.
elephant
land
at
vengeful
morality by
reinfo/dng
many
pillars,
of
of human
prop of
rotten
timbers
that
shored
it
building.
Mgr.
Lechaptois,
Atix
Rives
imaginary
and
support
which
in
the
course
of
accepted
high honour
man,
I
whose
attitude
towards
most honoured
I remembered
are recorded
namely, from
foik-iore.
In
a
study
in
com-
the
widespread
I
am not primarily concerned, though of course it cannot be
ignored in considering the problem of
their
origin.
The
inquiry
attempted, especially
some of
with
and
good
conciseness.^
1
R.
wick,
1891).
Othernotable
discussions
(Berlin,
1913)
pp.
382-396;
thunis
und
der
Naturvolker
(Vienna,
general
question
which
is
customs
at
present
presume to offer an
once
from
various races of
this is the
firmed
by
are due partly
floods,
traditions,
con-
troversy
many
other
on
§
his kinsfolk and friends,
Macedonian
month
thousands
of
clay
tablets,
containing
records
of
legal
transactions,
and
the
breadth
come
and
immediately
abated,
days
Xisuthrus
the
ship,
and
and drove
the ship
wife,
and
his
the
ground, and built an altar, and when he had sacrificed
to
by
name.
But
Xisuthrus
Yet a voice
he himself for
and that his
same
honour.
And
he
buriedj
and
distribute
them
among
men.
Moreover,
when
they
heard
these
things,
they
13,000
stretches
the
length
of
^the
See
(Lord)
sider
the
state
of
the
James
Bryce,
bitumen off
it and
Babylon
they
dug
up
on
the
for
clay,
which
were
afterwards
ransacked by
antiquaries of
minuter
fragments.
Yet
by
British
Museum,
was
able
eleventh
of
Mr.
Rawlinson
The
corresponded
^^^Jsamesh
to
the
twelve
that
the
course
legend in
to signify
as it stands
has fallen grievously sick.
immortality.
:
:
at last he enters the
presence'
Jastrow,
him
that
immortality
is
immortal,
Gilgamesh
to
explain
how
:
a city
®
and
thou shalt
fifth day
and he
sesame-wine
an,d
oil
and
of
the
New
Year.
And
when the ship was ready he filled it with all that
he
had
family
and
his
household,
326).
a black
In heaven
the gods
^^^
down
weeping.
the
storm,
the ship fast. When the seventh day drew nigh, I
sent, out
her,
and
she
and let
her go
(so
P.,
Dhorme),
I will not
Igigi
(saying),
escape
man shall
the warrior Enlil,^
sin,
and
all
be
mankind
mankind
the land
1
Or
 incense
(so
L.
W.
King, P.
brought
my
wife
forth,
he
of
the
rivers
the
rivers,
they
made
had
originally
no
found among the ruins
moved
by
Ea's
eloquent
of
the
field,
a
plan
he
may
be
of
the
it.
excavations undertaken
is
month
1966
B.C.
Unfortun-
ately
that
to Atrakhasis
Textes
religieux
Assyro-
Babyloniens^
Lichte
Gilgamesch-Epos,
p.
pp.
59,
74
appears to
is
to
All
these versions of the flood story are written in the
Semitic
excavators
at
Nippur
and
that
is, in the non-Semitic language of the ancient people who
appear
and to
and
Mythology^
pp.
Testamente, i.
have
founded
in
the
lower
from the
era,
when
the
been
the ancient literature
still studied and copied
Hence
the
that
after
borrowed
the
story
men
were
created
by
the
Sumerian
(about
and
the
Earliest
History
of
the
World,
Jehovistic
against
the
Priestly
Document
in
tablet on
yet
god Enki,
service,
prostrating
himself
in
at
the
Before the holy man receives this timely warning, his divine
friend
his warning
parallel
master,
and,
unable
to
contain
a
hole
in
claimed
tablet
which
the
when the great boat
heaven
and
earth.
When
the
light
prostrates
himself
before
the gods
appears
now
says,
the
boon
of
immortality,
the
gods
cause
him
to
trifling
variations
of
horse
ass.
Benfey
^txB.Msz,
Die
Bulgaren
^txB.Msz,
Die
Bulgaren
(Leipsic,
1898),
thought
that
Semitic
hero
who
was
ancient docurrientary sources.
interesting
{highly probable that the
ithe
did
and habits
acquired a
is
laid,
a
very
archaic
and
a long way
changed
its
that
the
land
has
the
spot
about
is, from
about 2100
been very
of
the
deluge
legend
not
repented
and
destroy
man
three sons, Shem,
and,
behold,
it
of
all
flesh
is
through them
within
make it : the
A
light
destroy
all
flesh,
heaven
sons,
for
them.
Thus
did
Noah
according
to
all
that
to thee
and
I
will
cause
it
destroy
from
off
the
face
of
the
Noah
went
in,
and
his
sons^
and
his
tvife,
and
of
two
and
two
the
seventeenth
day
of
fountains of the great
the
earth
forty
days
and
forty
nights.
In
the sons of Noah, and Noah's
wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the
ark
the cattle
after
And
of
heaven
were
me
waters.
; and
the
the waters
the
to pass
of
were
abated
from
off
the
again
unto
hi7n
129
God blesses
them, Be fruitful, and
for
you
will
I
require
the
life
of
man.
even every
covenant with
the
token
of
the
covenant
which
and
every
shall
come
to
pass,
when
I
bring
a
cloud
remember
my
;
everlasting covenant
between God
all
said
and
all
flesh
that
the
superficial
uniting
critics.^
1
W.
Robertson
l^^derivrd
t^e other
latest,
of
Difference
t^e^wT
century
dates.
before
our
era
after the year
and
women
appears
Theecciesi-
chamLerof
instruments
in
he
explained
writes
is
sacred
great
and
long ago
itself in another direction.
it,
enemies behind him and before, the dreamer beheld a ladder
stretching
up
beyond
the
to
endure
forestall and
of God's kingdom
golden
crown
him : its
to
purely
historian
narrowed,
coloured, by
wilderness,
invisible
to
his
heated
of
the
sabbath.^
The
glorious
luminaries,
was
a
the
feasts
in
the
ecclesiastical
family vault in which
practised conveyancer.
At this distance of time the whole scene still passes before
us, as
similar scenes
may have
two
over a point
But
more than
a rigged
the
Jehovistic
document.
In
in
the
colours
of
Raphael.
^oj *^^^^
of
the
-^^rte ^^^^
posed
in the cool of
couple
from
the
the heat
In
short,
the
and
immortal
charm.^
Great Flood
the
Jehovah,
wherever
they find the latter written in the text. Hence the English
reader
may
assume
as
Introduction^^
pp.
revelation
of
the
name
Jehovah
onwards.
Apart
there
they
Their dis-
assumes
the
distinction
between
Kennett, has
kindly pointed
^
viii.
vised
^^eL^siof-
moment dream
and the
that the
indepen-
have
been
composed
some
ages
age,
which
has
worked
evolution
and
applies
accidental.
of
or bitumen, and takes into it
his
except the hero and his
family :
forth
time returns to the
:
: in both, the vessel at last grounds on a mountain:
in both, the
a
separate
elements
than
the
doubted
Babylonia;
1 ,
story of
Biblical narrative
era.^
literature
in
Palestine,
and
of
Jewish
literature
in
are
the
details
as
to
the
smearing'
of
characteristic
product
of
Babylonia.^
But
that
the
in
away
into
eighth.
native
Canaanites,
who
in
it through
sun
and
moon
to
the
demons
at
defiance.
It.
was
led
men
astray
excited
due
warning ;
for
the flood as
which,
rose
;
they saw
him building
it in
a golden
into
night from
of rain
:
all
in,
but
of the
enforced,
the
-five,
and
the
number
of
species
of
birds
thirty-two.
No
note
was
taken,
huge
that
there
to the
daughter
the
wolves
howled,
and
nocturnal
animals
the
least
pro-
vocation.
his dinner
paw
that
life
on
the
tenth
the
raven
found
in
his
report.
A
leaf
plucked
the
lion
and
could
not
and married
destroy the
into
it
147
are
called
laoi
from
laas^
^JJ
q^_
said
Pindar,
who
wrote
;
and
Pyrrha
descending
from
Parnassus
which they
But
Deucalion
is
reported
to
luxuriant
verdure
fed
by
abundant
with
its
winding
shores
and
standing
out
against
the
city
on
the
Deucalion's
ark,
while as
according to another
Deucalion
escaped
was
a
great flood.*
The mountain
top
towers
Megarus,
son
mountain
the ravages
of
Second
Book
of
Arrian's
Bithyniaca,
at
resolves
to
one
catch fire
from the
kindle on
he
shower
bath.
So he shut up the North Wind in the cave
of
Aeolus,
C.
maiiscken
himself
over the
roof of his
on a green meadow, his keel grated on his own
vineyard,
and
he
lately nibbled
woods.
When
waste
Deucalion
billows
goddess Themis,
before
it
another.
Touched
with
compassion
at
sound the
that
goddess.
Deucalion
The
sacred
edifice
mankind
in
slime;
and
naturally
home,
and
two
sup-
pliants
she
instructed
temple,
to
veil
their
behind
a long time they
when
declare respectfully
more
in
the
hopef l of success, but nothing
else
occurring
to
them
to
So they carried
and sure enough
this
account
of
a position to
Other
ancient
Greek
tradition
 ssodaTd
landing
on
the
for safety to Athens,
left
old
sanctuary
city, still
attract the
but eloquent
ancient
Greece.^
Nor was this all that the guides had to show in memory
of
year
153
not
only
threw
way under a
East.
goddess Astarte,
who to
bequeathed to
according to the
took place.
gave
hospitality
the
rivers
swelled,
he
was
saved
was
this.
He
brought not
water. The water is
doing
this they say that they comply with the custom which
Deucalion
instituted
in
at
once
of
tall columns, or rather
of
offered on
men
had
ascended
to
judge by
tinued
legend of
-time of
^ann^cus
Deucalion, and,
foreseeing the
and pray.
neighbours,
man,
inquired
to
mouth
to
 
After
the
the
whole
race
mankind
Zeus
commanded
Prometheus
and
9 a., _T,
reigns of Severus,
appear from the
other
dove carrying an
human figures
unques-
of our
the Book of
Genesis. They may
Babelon.
See
E.
Greek
was
the
most
and
Deucalion,
founded
tiveiy.
Of
and
reigned
over
|jj^
was
to carry little
^at
Apamea,
vi.
41
rege ThebanorumJ'^
Rhodius, Argonaut, iii. 1178
nius Rhodius,
built
years before
the time
36
B.C.
; and
took place
we infer
that in
just
one
thousand
first
Olympiad,
Tj6
B.C.,
we
arrive
Christian
chronicler
referred
deluge
to
which
he
of
^^e
floods
Noachian
and
Deucalion.^
Noah
(Oxford,
bius,
Praeparatio
Evangelica,
x.
10.
1834)
pp.
5-8.
That
the
deluge
of
Ogyges
happened
probable,
a
Boeotian
of
Ogyges
the
vicissitudes
of
the
limestone
lake,
perhaps,
mere,
more
or
Lebadea,
and
winter
roads
follow-
reached its
by which
time the
mouths of
presented to
away for
of
sunlit
edges,
were
bare.
In
the
higher
parts
the
whole
summer,
though
there
were
or perhaps
its lowest
reason
to
extensive
suppose
inundation
water of the lake has been liable to be raised
copa
aic
above
of Ogyges.
rising
flood,
and
subject. The
not
on
the
plan,
of
the
prehistoric
palaces
of
Mycenae
though
less
skilled
formidable
to
an
assailant
violent.
Everything
seem
of
the
Copaic
Lake,
was
before
he
founded
a
simple
guess,
and
as
such
I
venture
to
hazard
it.
The
theory
which
The
third
who
is
said
one
account,
to
part
have been
bom at
such long
lake.
But
with
these
substantial
resemblances
are
combined
some
striking
differences
between
upland valley
the year. The
of
the
days
I
its
birthplace
in
the
lovely
lake,
first
to
gorge
through
which
it
sheets
of
from
been
from
has
the springs of the
years
before,
after
a
the bottom of the
three
or barley. But
the
in
its
i
8
9
5
of
level
ground on the north, where the luxuriant green of vine-
yards
the
whole
scene
presented
rather
Greek
landscape.
changed.
Looking
July
after-
noon,
a
white
point
to
keep
the
subterranean
outlets
the oldest
to a long-continued persistence of the lake at this high
level
rather
temporary rise in
the colour
recorded
by
Pausanias,
Pheneus at the
northern end of
Arcadia, the emigrant
great flood
dardanus
the
great
skin,
drifting
on
the
^^hencehe
face
of
the
where
he
escaped
to
founded
Dardania
^^racian
i.T.1111
*^°°^
,
'
.
°
divrded?he
they
and built
^
of water
dammed up
ever since
flowed into
well
as
the
fiat
lands
of
Samothrace.^
high,
Sea.
A
became a
situated somewhat
and
what
were
of Aral stood
Caspian
northward,
through
Peninsula,
Pleistocene
period
-or
later.^
have
inhabited
Europe
in
even the
the
piercing
re-
mains
close
the
Dardanelles
dam,
of an
Mediterranean
widespread inunda-
the Dardanelles, it
story of a great
who rightly
process
by
which
nature
had
excavated
their
collected
waters
to
rather
than
from
Deucalion
of a real event, as an inference founded on the
story'of
inference
account
physical
r^^^'
Thessaly,
sea,
shut
contented
themselves
with
referring
who
divine or heroic
in truth the natural features of the pass of Tempe
are
naturally
^ell
a
^[^^^^^
whereas' the beams of the rising sun,
but
as
showfthat
room
castus
—are
festooned
with
with
the
crimson
bloom
of
the
oleander
the
luscious
odours
of
masses
their
pendent
boughs
sun.
The
scarred
and
fissured
great
oaks
and
dark
summer
him
from
the
fierce
monotony of the landscape.-^
grand
and
beautiful
ravine,
age-
long
erosion
Grieckenland
(Leipsic,
other than the
itself
the
Thessalian
mountains,
lowlands
 
Deucalion's
flood
of
Dardanus
:
In short,
these sons
flowing
dUuviai.
blood
thev
made
the
ocean,
the
head,
other gods moulded
Norse legend may be
everybody
clambered
are
descended.
But
they
deal
put
other
couples
sprang
Lithu-
anian
tribes.-^
late
Triads,
iii.
13
i.
sq,
flowed
in
many
rivers.
Men
and
day it hap-
to
her
husband,
the fish and
to keep it
wife swore, saying,
 
their beds
the old man
which
ye
seeds
of
trees
and
herbs,
the
earth
again.
Then
von
the
ancient
gipsies
brought
the
story
flood
stock,
who
Asia and
Europe,* The
Great Man,
we
do ?
the
villages,
urging
the
inhabitants
of
its
waves.
Let
us
embark
without
seventh
day
the
water
began
set
foot
the
point
of
great
god
Numi-tirom
plants,
and
their
the
these rings, which
There
over-
looks
Julien
to
clamber
whelmed
i
in
each
appearance
type,
had
Another
Persian
a
diluvial
tradition.
storyreiates
We
read
that
of
three
hundred
years,
it
became
absolutely
was
exhausted;
for
he
are
going
to
fall,
three sorts of beasts
wilderness,
live in
-ingly
 
,
kind
of
tree,
of
seemed
was
also
with
every
sort
of
cattle.
winters and
ark. But
and
a
region
pp.
was
2
In
this
opinion
I
am
had enjoyed
of Yima.
But as
the last incident
inhabitants,
The story
i
500
i
recorded
marked
story
pj-obabiv
Brahmajia,
an
well
Indus
but they were probably as yet little affected by the
ancient
civilizations
the
great influx of Greek ideas and Greek art came centuries
later with Alexander's
runs
as
follows
for
wash-
The
story
ing,
water for
The
Indian
Empire
(Oxford,
And in
rope of the
ofl ,
whilst
thou
mayest
is
called
and austerities. During
milk,
whey,
 
'
With
her
he
on
which
is
this
race
of
Manu
The story
this
huge
before
Christ ;
dence
:
 
[riski'\
Manu,
excellently
contained
in
the
jar.
Then,
;
time, when
touch and smell,
the
purification
of
thee
what
How,
on
is
thou
do
ocean
in
the
beautiful
ship.
He
which,
knowing
his
founded,
the
drew
the
ship
the
highest
peak.'
highest peak
(*
animishd)
said
itself as
you from
this great
^ ^
.
a
great
act
of
austere
fervour
great
seer,
who
by
his
religious
the
world
and
of
living
things,
of
the
one
dissolution
of
a great shower
from
the
sky.
In one day and
'
one
even
in
that,
he
was
thrown
lord
of
the
world,
abode
of
be
submerged
in
the
waters.
2nd.
Adhyaya :
Suta
said
: Being
thus
addressed,
to
my
protected by
up.
The
the
very
manner.
Then
hitothe^
Janardana
of a rope.
in
sleep
of
contemplation
and
it
would
fish, but Vishnu himself
is
dissolved
in
various seeds,
ocean, by the
prosperity.'
Accordingly
there
appeared
on
the
serpent
for
a
rope,
as
the
by the god. When
How Manu
of
his
hands,
and
out
for
greater
room,
thee,
O
Narayana.
Why,
O
Janardana,
the wicked,
the world. A
made
ready
the
box
and
sister
heard the
the man
his
sister.
to
he
at
once
the
fish's
tongue
;
repeople the
The
firstborn
received
a
horse,
man, and
woodmen his
India.
God
sent
a-
deluge
which
had
angered
him.
The
should
subside.
came
and
lasted
for
birds
and
sent
had
the
the
surface
other
that
So
the
birds
flew
subside,
and
taking
heard their story.
Thereu on he
were
married,
and
different
inhabit-
ants
of
of the
the
the
Kamars
through
Singbhum-,
in
south-western
Bengal,
^f^
by'tht
was
first
peopled
mankind
be
current
among
mankind
grew
wicked
sent
down
a
and
all
men
by hiding
this
have
also
^^^6.
f
M
There
are
Benlaf
various
a tradition
for
seven
days
and
seven
nights.
They
flood
was
over,
they
They
answered,
:
different
social
distinctions
and
duties
Two
members
of
who
From
your
Khojkaman, their iniquity
Jiu,
reports
on
the
sur-
teachers
to
civilize
the
Stories of
the king
of the
away
a
Journey
of
the
Bihar
And
the deep
we see
the
great
say
that
Story
of
a
once
Anais
of
climbed
that
we
shall
Mong-hi
on
the
Cambodia
River's
down
great
of
them.
he
sent
impious
race
was enraged,
to the third
was a very
nineteenth of the
fourth month
^eo le^
earth
cracked
died.
open
the
long,
and
god
of
streams
and
of
ponds,
the
before
the
sage
Lip-long,
who
had
sage
as an
to
destroyed, that
embraced
them,
and
let
him
city of wine and women.
How the
bodies,
down
sent
down
they
could
thousand tigers, but even
More
angry
than
ever,
too
might have
riding
their
horses,
they
viewed
all
the
country
round.
Alighting
How
the
his
sword
he
ripped
up
her
his
wide,
coiling
blossomed
Then
Ling-lawn,
the
threw thunderbolts to
fruitful and
Cashmeer, which
Earthly
was
once
Alpine
water
was
limit
of
ordin-
ances
Nagas, laid
or seventh
how at the begin-
great era of
the world, the
demon named
Jalodbhava or
But
it
so
the father of all
Nagas. The sage
this
dilemma
the
god
Vishnu
called
upon
moun-
tains
with
his
weapon,
ploughshare
the
goddesses
adorned
rivers and
middle
accurate
of
the
popular
There
is
support
the
belief
that
fvideS^
the
valley
of
Cashmeer
of
some
great
con-
vulsion
occurrence. ^
Are
we
occupation
of
which mountain
;
Stein,
mountain basin.
said to have
flood in
the low-
hanging
suddenly
how
he
extricated
himself
from
his
in
Assam,
After some
But the
bottom.
They
but with no better
last cock crew
Soon
after
the
to
leave
their
The elves
mince
meat
giving
tongue,
till
one
day
the
evening
and
asked
for
her
curry,
and
then
the
cross-
Bengalees,
quarrelled with
Bahnars
of
be
seen
were saved in
for
seven
days
cock
crowing
the
Singphos.
and
the
Shan
States
from Upper
the
Patkoi
ligion
des
Katchins
sister
immense inundation
rice sufficed to fill
an abridged
just seen, is
is
the
can say
in each tribe, has
and
Cambodia,
belong
to
for
a
time,
the man
sidds
not
yet
been
saw
seven
small
shrubs
of
rhododendron
and
seven
grandchildren
and
from
her
left
calf
came
the
offspring
of
the
same
mankind
are
the
descendants
of
first
pair.^
In
Kelantan,
a
district
and all
part
in
Chinese
terri-
of
of their hostility
belong
to
the
same
race
a
recopied,
have
been
generation.^
They
bear
family
surnames,
which
family
believe
that
they
are
descended
patriarchs,
sixty
and
even
nine
of deaThf
who
enjoys
who
caused
one
;
overflow
the
their
great
heights,
threatening
the lower people
whom
dis-
to injure his peers.
the work. the emperor employed Khwan, and said to
him,
in
vain,
accomplishing all that he had undertaken
and
showing
it
hardly
belongs
to
Tribes of Western
and
allowed
;
most
fertile
versai^^
deluge was
way by
to
China,
affirmedby
Arrived
^
of
inadiscus-
the
family
of
the
Prophet
traveller.
to
*'
and said to the
true that the whole
country. Your traditions
agreeing
with
so
keep
defence of
truth
enough,
are
all
com-
1841)
pp.
335
sq.
Compare
Ancient
paratively
slight
and
cursory.
See
Accounts
of
and
it left
^^.^^t flood
mountains
sand
sea, oyster-shells and the
in remote antiquity the waters
'
had
been
made
their
The
Battas
or
Bataks
of
Sumatra
say
that
in
the
Battas
or
the
deity
always
endeavouring
the world
And he
Then
the earth will again sink into the sea, and the sun
will
approach
to
The
men
of
be transported
to heaven
cauldron
in
which
Batara
highest
natives
of
The
strife
vexed
usually run
away. The
disastrous.
tops
of
two
their
rest
were
drowned.
ancestor of the
story
of
a
Sumatra,
have
also
their
story
natives of
caught
in
a
thorny
tree,
dead body„and
drowned men and
in Borneo, are fond
their ancestress
through
the
jungle
the bamboo
tree
exuded
drops
of
blood
sitting on was not a tree but a gigantic boa-constrictor
in a
carried the flesh home to eat. While they were busy
frying
the
to
ceased
fall-
ing
submerged
and
the
world
and animals
rain, the
wind and was
against
a
after
the
great
flood.
was
but
one leg,
had
for
this
refused to pay him
him with
the Barito,
hills
two
thousand
feet
and
more
escaped
pregnant
mouse,
floated
mice come every
By him
she had
Areminis-
say
that
on
the
top
of
that
flood,
which
lasted
forty
^^f^ bTthe
which the
Alfoors
of
generation.
Only
three
^^^^'
remarkable
leaves
of
The inhabitants
of
all
men
and
beaten down
the
high
mountains
mola,
taken
refuge.
After
some
months
der
in
1825,
Tijdschrift
voor
Indische
appeared
and
sprinkled
waters,
seek
maize, millet,
them
and
produce. That
is the
brings
tion to the
dances to
good
harvest
plenty
to
eat.-^
of
their
tribe,
was
thus.
The
greatest
afterwards
the
woman.
Her
prayer
was
answered,
whose
name
was
Uacatan.
When
home lies
natives.
village
of
They
descended
to
a
place
.
seeing the pig and
the
houSe
there
were
stars.
in-
cestuous
marriage,
and
two
girls,
whose
names
sought
to
mitigate
their
conjugal
intercourse
that
they
two
sisters
a
wooden
mortar,
which
floated
a good land
brother and her
Expecting
nothing
heave the stone
into the river,
it.
stone very
white stone to
A
third
version
hoisting it on
arms
and
they obtained
For
mountain they had no time to take fire with them,
and
for
while
flood
and
swam
straight
for
the
reach
thereafter.
I
should
potatoes
every
with this
and
swimming
with
efforts
suddenly
their
escape,
snake
offered
with
a
Then
the
goddess
Hipararasa
came
range
she
Formosa,
Bunun of
stories of a great flood in which a gigantic snake
and
rain
for
a huge
the
flood soon subsided
and
The
primitive
fjf^i''b*^°°'^
and
islands.
regardless
of
perhaps
creatures,
both
the
canoe at
the
How
had
extinguished
the
of
their
friends,
who
had
^^^
'^^^''^^•
found
the
Creator
seated
beside
his
had
better
not
try,
for
he
their arrows could
milder terms, that
by
wilful
dis-
obedience
punishment.
That
§
tribe
of
Gippsland,
Victoria,
say that a long time ago there was a very great
Kurnai of
women,
island
to
his last trip,
with
his
hurt his own foot, and what with the pain and
the
chagrin
white in order
who
had
so
half of
with
According to
land.
So
the
die
of
laughing.
But
cheeks,
so they lived
him.
distance he cried
a
certain
obliged to drag
The
on the coast
happened
to the
^
Howitt's
Folklore
arrow
they did it notwithstanding.
animals of every sort
consumed
had
and a pigeon.
tremendous
convul-
is
said
escape
from
the
flood
without
eating
than
wretched
man modifies
his own
and
Tami.
Fijian
they
call
Walavu-levu
his
two
grandsons,
whether
by
overslept
himself,
and
being
his
favourite
everywhere.
found. But
carpenters, who
willingly undertook
the stockade
highest places were
Because the survivors
Qat the ground
his brothers
 
thick
woods
to
the
sea?
they
asked
all
the
living
creatures
of
and
shut
himself
and
the
circle
of
the
through
the
hero Qat took
when he
Mota, the happy natives
his brethren.
down which
But
alas
Qat has
projecting
points,
which,
remaining
as follows. Tahiti
the land,
and wife),
But two
persons, a
her
animals,
young
dog,
Mount
Orofena,
a
that
the
sea
would
reach
of the
daughter. They
grieved that
covered
with
food;
and
in
from those two
descended.^
In
Raiatea,
the
of
ocean,
land.
The
affrighted
confessed
forgiveness, beseeching
or
and
child
of
refuge
in
who was living under
souls,
were
set
the
and
the
mountains
appeared
above
the
companions left their
to
the
coral,
shells,
and
other
deposited
whom
the
rising
observations
fail of rain.
windows of heaven
having been opened,
the inundation
its
inhabitants.
Hawaiian
natives
of
deluge,
they
greatfloocT
told
him
of
a
similar
been overflowed by
before
heard
live coral. The
miles wide,
sort of
Cyclopean wall
dark
centre
is
no
lagoon.
The
streams,
after
subterranean
Aokeu, a son
who
home
is
the
is
to
tread
down
its
basin,
and
enables
it
to
hold
more
hurricane
^^^cM
over
sea
and
also
lent
their
thunder
The
other
twin-child
On rushed these mighty monsters,
secure
of
victory.
may see
to this
day numberless
clam and
Meantime,
Aokeu
every
side
the
channels
until
Just
cried,  It is
the
:
diversity of hill
of
Mkngaia,
rain-god.
away into
the ocean,
taking
refuge
missionary who
mountain
to
long
known
as
universal belief that of
were
flood.
left
on
Hence,
they
earth
prevailed
everywhere,
the
tribes
quarrelled
man
and
doctrine
heaven
as we
see them
 
of the
a raft.
ropes, and
on
the
raft,
and Reti and a
on
the
But still the
earth
he said
and
no
longer
priest knew
that the
drawing
land
on
All
the
tions
and
performed
ceremonies
in
honour
of
of
the
inhabitants
cracked and
burning grass on
of their lives
of his brothers-in-law
for
dead.
Tawhaki.
brothers-in-law
upon the
himself,
 
they let
the floods
was
overwhelmed
by
the
^
by-
weeping
so
copiously
and
How the
||^5^ised
door to
door. But
oMwoman
^^^
when they went away they warned
saved
from
of bamboo
came a dreadful
discovery
;
^
about
Cape
the
story
related
ground
wife and children. But his brother
Ariconte cared
his
to
his
peaceful
brother
the
amputated
arm of a slain foe, and as he did so he
said
proudly
for
you
grieved
at
his
brother's
his
perceived
were
drowned,
was
a
better
man
recorded
by
the
Jesuit
mention
Brazihan
is
made
of
warned to
all
the
up
into
the
long
as
the
Brazil,
have
Caingangs,
a
the
Cayurucres,
and
drowned, and
some
called
the
ducks
to
their
the mountain.
in
which
kindled a
fire, and out of the ashes of the fire one of
the
Cayurucres
moulded
and bees,
and animals
one
of
the
Games
imitated
fight the
other animals
Garayas,
language
appears
pig
what
he
said.
They
all
kinds
of
flowers
and
fruits,
which
they
offered
to
a
senseless.
So
began
to
dance
and
sing.
But
and
he
turned
him-
another
calabash,
and
then
another
them
succeeded.
At
last
the
bicudo
(a
fish
with
lagoon
still
marks
the
spot
where
they
may
one of
of hot
purus.
sun.
a
countless
everything
that
mouldered
of the storks,
an
inch
across
fall of
present
to
give
him
seeds
of
their
fields.
Thus
the
sun,
but
Kataushys,
people heard
a rumbling
turned
ofthT^
the wild beasts
ness ascending from the earth
to
the
knowing why
high, till the earth
highest
trees
Thither the
single
heap of
and they said
who re-
to
do
so
the
Jibaros,
took refuge in a cave
on a
version provides, with
animals as well
the
flood
but
which,
strange
two
brothers
.Darting
married
it
or
her,
and
her tail,
till the
let fall dropped
survivors took refuge
accompanied
by
occurs,
these
which
they
fancy
to
as they
deluge
the
world.
On
these
occasions,
each
one
takes
a
good
supply
of
provisions,
transplantation. So
to keep
animal
calculating that
the task
some time to
fresh-water
fish
was
determined
to
stock
all
the
rivers
so
liberal
a
scale
that
water.
with
he gave the animals
ascertain
storm
horrible yells
that his
throat swelled
Sigu
sinking
of
the palm into the
by
the
fheTpiash^
the^ater,'^
soft earth. Then he knew
that the flood had
trumpeter-
spark, he
out
the
animars
tongue,
fire
'destruction
and
once
by
flood.
by
Aiomun
for themselves a
supported
face,
had
tion
tied
his
bark
waters
subsided
he
found
When
the
deluge
had
retreated,
explore
in
the
Greek
story
is
difficult
to
Legends of
:
 
arada without recalling
during
our
stay
belief that at the
escape
the
general
inunda-
against
the
rocks
of
of
sorrow
at
the
which
the
woman
who had
whole plain
threatened
to
I shall
not destroy
flowed
away
down
this
new
side and
a mass
nature
sluggish
current
near
and
luxuriant vegetation of
of green.
of
mist
The
cascade
is
;
from
the
summit.
When
the
to
eat
and
chicha
to
and
after
that
they
laid
their
forth from
the
birds
were
asked his
elder brother
angry.
had
finished
cooking
were
two
upon as
all
there
is
upon
it
Wondering
the man
themselves.
The
the
parish
of
San
Geronimo
de Surco. The man did as he was bid, carrying
the load
kinds
of
birds
and
animals
began
animals
had
to
crowd
together
in
hardly find
and the
from
Cuzco.
They
say
story of
who
floated
and
(Jiuacas)
and
places
The
Peruvian
some
persons
remained
in
mountain
people
affirm,
being
saved
of
that
country.
That
in it.
great
flood.
told
the
true
god
the
prairies
retreated before
great
conflagration,
accomplish
his
How
two
great
expanse
of
creatures
that
quite
infants to cook
the fish which
extinguished
by
the
deluge.
the rescue of
the two children.
Before the flood
taken the precaution
coals
them
the
fish
caught
the
Chiriguanos
is
descended.-^
The
natives
of
Tierra
a
of
South
America,
tell
a
fo^^^
Fuegians.
that
the
waters
that
historian
Clavigero,
deluge, none were
;
apes, but
had
existed
for
four
hundred
years,
water
of
Nahui-Atl,
all
was
lost.
The
year
Titlaca-
huan
had
saying,
 Brew
no
 
maize,
and
the
moved
no
fishes. Then they
But
the
the
^^jl^'tflo^o/
children,
entered
into
them
animals
and
seeds
of
diverse
world
after
the
deluge.
When
fly
other
which
describes how the
materials
had
all,
for
different
reasons,
like
physical
point
death.
Then
the will of the Heart of Heaven, and there was
a great
: they
Thus
was
The
near
Santa
Catarina
in
tain
fastnesses,
the
of
primitive
barbarism.
for
hearts they cling
;
thus.
A
for
planting.
had
felled
the
day
before
It
vain.
On
to
spring
forth
from
croft,
The
Native
Races
of
the
Pacific
Abbe
and
notes.
The
Father,
Francisco,
Ximenes,
who
was
original
manuscript
is
below
that
in
old woman
you. Then she
 
sharp
as
chile,
which
will
make
cover.
Take
with
of each colour, and five beans
of
each
colour
feed
it,
and
the black bitch
the cover, and caulked
any
chinks.
Having
made
with a macaw
year it floated
to the south,
flood,
and
all
the
world
the
cover
and
saw
water
all
it
was
that
hid
himself
He
saw
the
bitch
take off her skin, hang it up, and kneel down
in
the
the cakes.
tunic
cried the woman and began to whine like a dog.
But
he took water mixed with the flour she had prepared,
and
with
head. She felt
tell
a
foM
When
it
subsided,
he
waited
sandpiper
ground.
The
bird
flew
back
five
days
more,
and
then
side
could
hardly
pull
his
of the canoe
vulture did not
see whether
God ordered
all the
the
{Tata Dios)^ which
girl
climbed
up
a
mountain
came
down
again.
They
and
their
footprints
may
selves, and
the people
perished. After
earth.
and yellow corn,
the story
of a
not
due,
caused
Caribs
of
was
this
deluge,
they
say,
the
mainland
or sugar-
sun
was
and
his
friend
the
coyote
top of Santa Rosa.
the
coyote
the
a great prophet,
him,
and
slept
again.
Again,
the
eagle
long-suffering
foolish
man
came the
man indeed he was
who
waters of
the tools which Szeukha used when he
lived
in
it.
For
some
reason
or
other
Szeukha
was
very
angry
the help
of a
where
the
eagle
resided,
in his
earth.^
Another
version
of
J'^e^Pkna
period
SiuuM
or
Elder
did
not
of
he
began
to
fashion
a
to save
Creator, and
them of
:
 
Weep,
my
side
log
and
 
Running
it was
j^^^^^g^*^
made of
There the
;
The
Creator
himself,
or
Yet
others
in
their
distress
However, he held out a hope to them that they
might
still
weretumed
jUjg
saved
top of
to
assist
the
people
in
Moumain
an
incantation,
;
noise. Then turning,
animal
the people
the
contains, moreover,
be
that
is
red and white
face
of
the
earth,
resolved
to
offer
they
received
swell
mountains
venge-
unto
them,
and
rain  
their opponents
heard them,
the world
Katuta.
Only
the
the top
and
stones
set
together,
marking
is
River tribe
the
Smith
water
valleys
all swept
who
escaped
Indians
died,
their
spirits
elks, bears,
paid
out
as
they
ascended.
lull their
only
to
knew what he was about he had darted through the
fire
and
the
earth,
he
had
;
and
the
hearts
of
were long
welcomed
for
Ashochimi
and
of
owls,
hawks,
eagles,
and
He sought
now
no
arrow
could
which
away
into
was
current
among
with
religious
Noah's
Greeks,
with
all
and
we
ourselves,
and
during
deluge
waters.
The
by
it
or
sides of their
to molest
a
wooden
man was
clear,
as near to
and
bound
with
hoops,
which they religiously
from mark or
very
centre
of
the
whole
nation.
To
it
Annual
mony
commemorative
of
left hand
opening,
and
which
had
mountain
in
the
west,
where
he
tjie
medicine-lodge,
life,
but
ceremony
produced
the
buffaloes
sacrifices made
to the
landed
I
a calamity, in which on , or three, or eight persons
were
Rocky Mountains and
del
Sacramento
in
South
America,
make
annual
pilgrimages
were
saved
in
canoes
or
coming
that
will
flood
the
water
at the
them the whole
is
lineally
descended.-^
Stories
i^°ans*^^
shell
was
The
mossy
and
bring
ruined
by
Canada.
used
out
of
could
the
which
plunged
into
nothing. Lastly,
the
earth
on
which
we
live.
who
;
^
°^^*
However,
some
two
breathed,
on
it,
and
on
the
surface
of
it
animal
soon
made
island and returned to him, from which he concluded that
the
So he
formed.
clear
to have
sent forth
black
the
man
inferred
that
landed.^
The
genuine
old
Algonquin
The
old
to
have
been
first
recorded
MacKenzie,
who
passed
kay-tchach
ing
of
intimacy
with
the
;
animal. Wis
young
wolves
said
is done by breaking
once more. This
time Old Wolf
went off with
Wis and the other
Wolf and
follows the
thefrl^d^'
one
brought
them
warkiiied
him.
So
away
went
lynxes
dislodge
him.
On
receiving
these
preparations
How
grievously
the
beast
the
water
made for
run.
The
covered.
The
canoe
floated
about
on
the
him-
a
short
time
for
the
restoration of the world after the flood. He had no earth,
not
even
a
He
now
set
presently
the
line
Thereupon
Wis
again
generally
friendly
kinsfolk
and
with
solitary wood.
though
so good
the wolves.
wolves,
camped
This
day they
How the
him, so
the two
on
the
lake?
Perhaps
he-
roamed
about
lake
of his lost
into
lamentations
so
loud
that
they
coat,
the
tree-stump
and
fortitude,
not
betraying
his
So
the
serpents
were
Mena-
How
boshu
slipped
escaped^
on
was flooded.
suddenly
stood
still.
In
this
painful
but
no
earth
of a drowned
in
his
hand,
breathed
on
me up
took
them,
dried
them
Menaboshu
was
and helped the
nature
to
roots
and
more
briefly,
with
minor
story told
; Ontario.
so
he
tree that
again,
feathers, the
door-flap.
Then
water-hons
He
first
pondered
what
the
stump
and
said
to
woodpecker,
who
showed
him
the
tall
pine-tree.
Nenebojo
began
to
build
a
raft.
By
the
raft
animals of
all the
he floated
Nenebojo said,
I had better
he
sent
the
up
mouth
for
calling
the
out
a
raven
the hawk, the
anywhere,
he
said
he
J^he^same
Timagami
great
lake
in this
feeling cold
in the
in it, making
a little loop-
hole in the
lions. The lions were curious as to this new thing
on
the
The
snake
which
she
lived.
day. It
could find
again
world was remade.-^
Old
Man
and was
loon tried, and
the otter, but the water was too deep for them. At
last the
to
of the
of the
families in
quin
tribe,^
was
with
of all animals
that
highest
mountains,
which
he
the
animals
; and
he
say
sister,
why
he
would
as I
they laughed
at him,
there
dirt.
See
before.
The
water
seemed
to
and
all
were
drowned.
of
the
future,
and
he
said
to
them,
for
a
long
time
to
dived and remained a long
vvith^he^
reappeared, floating on
^^ich
same
time
and
of
mud
IIJjq^^^''^^^
grew
still
bigger.
Round
l^igSsr
flood.
Then
the
Wise
Man
plover.
 The
bittern,
he
said,
guggling
sound,
and
out
came
the
world
became
habitable
deluge
was
caused
thrstory
^y
month of
to dive
slime
caused it
to grow
great flood.
she
would
not
have
him.
So
next
return
home.
had come
the fond
?
 
paddle,
and
the
young
man
him
on
answered,
and
cried,
 
Then she sank down
hold of
and how
her
daughter
escaped
to
himself escaped,
it
ahead
it
clove
a
in safety. Still
he struck
with his
fast.
The
can see it. After
So^he
married her,
from the
the people
beyond the
men, then
who
reports
it,
observed
 
Loucheux
of
Arizona.
call
to scramble into
it and caulk up the ends. In it he floated about
safely till
the flood
on
a
to
of
the right
of Fort
down
the
Mariner
took
his
stand,
straddlewise,
lofty
rock
fast
and
the
bird
was
dashed
of
anywhere
discover.
Only
a
loach
and
themselves' in
the sun.
ret