The Flood (Baring-Gould, Legends of Old Testament Characters, 1871)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: mythology (c. 1840)
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 (See also Genesis 6-8)

[...] The Pacullies [or more accurately, Tacullies or Carriers], on the west coast of New Georgia, say that at the Deluge one man and one woman were saved by escaping into a cave ; and they add that when the earth was drowned, a water rat dived for it and brought it to the surface again. [...]
Baring-Gould, Sabine, Legends of Old Testament Characters, London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1871, p. 102.


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