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Noun Concept
Categories: Mesopotamian myths, Megafloods, Jemdet Nasr period, Catastrophism, Flood myths
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flood myth  deluge myth  flood  deluge  Deluge mythologies
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A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Wikipedia
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A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Wikipedia
Narrative in which a great flood destroys a civilization, commonly as divine retribution Wikidata
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flood
myth
HAS INSTANCE
Noah's flood
Sumerian creation myth
Tiddalik
Gilgamesh flood myth
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
Wikipedia
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flood myth
Wikidata
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deluge myth
Wikipedia Redirections
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Deluge (mythology), deluge myth, Deluge mythologies, Deluge mythology, Deluge mythos, deluge myths, Diluvian, Diluvianism, flood (mythology), Flood legend, Flood legends, Flood Myth, Flood mythologies, Flood mythology, Flood mythos, flood myths, flood narrative, flood stories, flood story, Floods (mythology), global flood, Great Deluge, Great Flood, Great Flood of Noah, Great floods, Near Eastern flood legends, Sinnflut, Sumerian floods, The Great Deluge, The Great Flood, The Worldwide Flood, universal flood Myth, World Flood
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deluge, flood myth

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