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==Other flood accounts==
==Other flood accounts==
The vast majority of cultures around the world have remnants of traditions which state their ancestors escaped a great and cataclysmic flooding of the world. Many of these tales involve a vessel carrying a few human survivors, animals, and a landing on a mountain as the waters drained away.
===Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh===
===Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh===
Excavations in the ancient city of [[Ninevah]] in 1853 unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html] Tablet 11 of this ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood.
Excavations in the ancient city of [[Ninevah]] in 1853 unearthed 12 clay tablets detailing the story of a mythical king of Uruk named Gilgamesh, and written between 2750-2500 B.C. [http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html] Tablet 11 of this ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had the hero learn the secret of immortality by going to the island of Utnapishtim, where he discovers that Utnapishtim is also the builder of the ark which carried man and animals on the seas of the flood.
===Greek tale of Deucalion===
===Greek tale of Deucalion===
The Greeks had a tale of Zeus being enraged over a king's sacrifice of an infant on an altar in his temple, and discovering the depraavity of man in general. Zeus gathered a council of the gods, and together washed away mankind; only Deucalion, having been warned in advance by Prometheus, escaped by building a chest whereupon he and Pyrrha escaped to safety [http://www.maicar.com/GML/Flood.html].
The Greeks had a tale of Zeus being enraged over a king's sacrifice of an infant on an altar in his temple, and discovering the depraavity of man in general. Zeus gathered a council of the gods, and together washed away mankind; only Deucalion, having been warned in advance by Prometheus, escaped by building a great chest whereupon he and Pyrrha escaped to safety, landing on Mt. Parnasus. [http://www.maicar.com/GML/Flood.html].
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