The Great Flood: Many Memories of Water Joined into One Event

Schoolbooks often shrink the Great Flood into a local Mesopotamian river flood, or treat it as a religious metaphor. That framing strains against one stubborn pattern, because communities on different continents keep telling the same sequence: water rises, land disappears, a small group survives, and society is rebuilt.

Schoolbooks often shrink the Great Flood into a local Mesopotamian river flood, or treat it as a religious metaphor. That framing strains against one stubborn pattern, because communities on different continents keep telling the same sequence: water rises, land disappears, a small group survives, and society is rebuilt.

Schoolbooks often shrink the Great Flood into a local Mesopotamian river flood, or treat it as a religious metaphor. That framing strains against one stubborn pattern, because communities on different continents keep telling the same sequence: water rises, land disappears, a small group survives, and society is rebuilt.

Schoolbooks often shrink the Great Flood into a local Mesopotamian river flood, or treat it as a religious metaphor. That framing strains against one stubborn pattern, because communities on different continents keep telling the same sequence: water rises, land disappears, a small group survives, and society is rebuilt.