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The biblical flood myth revisited: representations of flood and deluge in climate fiction
2023In this thesis, I demonstrate how the biblical flood myth is revisited in narrative framings of flood-related catastrophe in the climate novel. Despite the number of works that explore environmental concerns in relation to flooding, there has been a gap in research on the use of the biblical flood myth in climate novels that use floods as metaphorical ...
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Flood, Spirit, And Sacrifice: The Story Of Ngaiteii As Flood Myth
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social ScienceFlood myths are found in many cultures across the world. These stories often describe how rising water becomes a powerful force that punishes human disobedience or restores balance between humans and nature. This article studies the Mizo folktale The Story of Ngaiteii as an example of a natural flood myth.
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Diodorus Siculus, the Myths of the Flood, and the “Book of the Islands”
2020In the past, the Bibliotheke of Diodorus of Sicily was considered as the simple collection of the works of previous authors. However, in recent decades his own work has been re-evaluated, including the first six books of the Bibliotheke devoted to“pre- historical” times. By examining a particular topic, the Great Flood, this paper shows how Diodorus, a
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Those who disobey to the rules of God or Gods, the human communities having misbehaviors are punished by Gods through flood myths. We can see all these stories in mythology, in the religious books and legends. In this article, titled "The Flood Myths", flood myths which are mentioned in Sumerian mythology, in the Old Testament, in Greek mythology and ...
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Those who disobey to the rules of God or Gods, the human communities having misbehaviors are punished by Gods through flood myths. We can see all these stories in mythology, in the religious books and legends. In this article, titled "The Flood Myths", flood myths which are mentioned in Sumerian mythology, in the Old Testament, in Greek mythology and ...
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