The Flood (Bengal Government Secretariat, The Gazetteer of Sikhim, 1894)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: mythology (c. 1894)
Relevance: Genesis - the Beginning
Text: "And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. ... And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:7, 19-23 "And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat." Genesis 8:4 (See also Genesis 6-8)

  Tendong, “the up-raised horn,” is the mountain which the Lepchas assert arose when all the country was under water, and supported a boat containing a few persons, all other people being drowned. The hill rose up like a horn (hence its name) and then subsided to its present form. [...]
Bengal Government Secretariat, ed., The Gazetteer of Sikhim, Calcutta: Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1894, p. 42.


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