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Urban Resilience to Floods: Real Challenges and Misleading Myths

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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 ...
R. S. Smith
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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.
A. B. Reagan
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Genesis 6,5-9,17: A Rewritten Babylonian Flood Myth

Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2015
AbstractThis is a short comparative reading of the flood stories in Atra-ḫasis III, Gilgamesh XI and Genesis 6-9, which contains a look at the similarities in structure and the nature of some differences of the Babylonian and Hebrew narrative and philological attention to the sending of birds motif in Gilgamesh XI 146-155 and Genesis 8,6-12.
Amanda Norsker
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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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