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Cultures that never met all remembered the same flood.

Six flood myths, six civilizations that never met — one story: the world drowns, one survivor saves life.

Cover — cultures that never met all remembered the same flood.
Mesopotamia's flood myth — the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Hebrew Bible's flood myth — Noah
Greece's flood myth — Deucalion
India's flood myth — Manu
China's flood myth — Yu the Great tames the flood
Mesoamerica's flood myth
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From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Noah, from India's Manu to Greece's Deucalion to China's Yu the Great — civilizations separated by oceans told one story: the world drowns, and a single survivor saves life itself. China's version even flips it — Yu doesn't flee the flood, he tames it.