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Gun and Yu Control the Waters: Chinese Flood Myths

open access: closed, 2020
Professor Hang Qian holds a Ph.D. in history. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor in Department of History at the School of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University. He is also an adjunct professor and doctoral supervisor in Department of History at East China Normal University.
Tian Zhao-yuan, Shuxian Ye, Hang Qian
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The Great Flood of 1997 in Poland: The Truth and Myth

open access: closed, 2000
In the second half of June 1997, the weather in Poland was influenced by cyclonic precipitation of high intensity and depth, which occurred throughout the country, except in northern and north-western Poland. The heavy rains of July `97 in Poland could be added to the list of the largest known rains in the officially recorded history of the Earth (Fig ...
Krzysztof Szamałek
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<i>The Curt Flood Story: The Man Behind the Myth</i> (review)

open access: closedNINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, 2008
Richard Crepeau
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The Flood Myth in the Age of Global Climate Change

Environmental Communication, 2011
When released, The Day After Tomorrow was widely described by critics and the movie's creators as a pro-environmentalist film. This essay argues that The Day After Tomorrow articulates a variation of apocalyptic discourse identified as a flood myth. The authors conclude that this version of the flood myth largely undermines contemporary environmental ...
Michael Salvador, Todd Norton
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Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth

Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2015
Abstract This essay analyzes the narrative accounts of Deucalion’s flood within the broader context of human creation in two ancient mythographical works of myth (Ovid, Apollodorus) and three modern handbooks. In each case the mythographer has been forced to reshape the episodic-one might say disparate and conflicting -nature of her or his sources and ...
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Flood Myth of the Bois Fort Chippewas

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), 1919
Manabush is the creator god of our people (the Bois Fort Chippewas). Soon after his birth his parents were both killed by.a clan of sea lions. After their death he lived with his grandmother till he became of age. He then decided to go out and avenge the death of his parents. The sea monsters who had killed them lived on an island.
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The Flood Myth

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1990
John F. Baggett, Alan Dundes
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