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THE FOUR FLOOD MYTH TRADITIONS OF CLASSICAL CHINA
T’oung Pao, 1997A. Birrell
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“It Will Never Happen Again”: The Myth of Flood Immunity in Brisbane
Journal of Australian studies, 2018Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity ...
M. Cook
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Wah Academia Journal of Social Sciences
The Great Flood myth, one of the most enduring and widespread narratives across various cultures, provides a profound lens through which to explore humanity's relationship with the environment.
Azka Khan, Ramsha Khan, Irram Waheed
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The Great Flood myth, one of the most enduring and widespread narratives across various cultures, provides a profound lens through which to explore humanity's relationship with the environment.
Azka Khan, Ramsha Khan, Irram Waheed
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‘Let your name be …’: The change of the names of Israel’s ancestors in light of the Atra-ḫasīs myth
Journal for the Study of the Old TestamentThe divine act of changing the names of Abraham, Sarah, and Jacob in the book of Genesis is paralleled by hitherto unnoticed similar cases of renaming specific protagonists in the Babylonian epic of Atra-ḫasīs: the goddess Mami/Bēlet-ilī and the Flood ...
Nathan Wasserman, Yigal Bloch
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Monumenta Serica
This study investigates one of China’s most prominent mythical narratives, the story of Great Yu, renowned for his curbing of the flooded waterways in deep antiquity.
A. McLaren
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This study investigates one of China’s most prominent mythical narratives, the story of Great Yu, renowned for his curbing of the flooded waterways in deep antiquity.
A. McLaren
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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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Gun and Yu Control the Waters: Chinese Flood Myths
2020Professor 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.
Zhaoyuan Tian, Shuxian Ye, Hang Qian
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