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Tiddalik's Travels: The Making and Remaking of an Aboriginal Flood Myth
2006Publisher Summary This chapter examines one particularly popular flood story, ‘‘Tiddalik the Frog,’’ and situates it in both classical and postclassical contexts. The chapter illustrates how the moral import of the story has shifted as a result of changes in presentation and audience, particularly since the story was deemed most suitable for children.
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The Flood Myth and the Origin of Ethnic Groups in Southeast Asia
The Journal of American Folklore, 1993Virtually every ethnic group in mainland Southeast Asia tells myths of a great deluge that leaves only two survivors alive to reconstitute humanity and to create the ethnic groups of the region. The survivors - typically a brother and sister, or a woman and dog - must consummate an abnormal marriage ; from the incestuous match is born a gourd or a ...
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Genesis 6,5-9,17: A Rewritten Babylonian Flood Myth
Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 2015AbstractThis 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.
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Diodorus Siculus, the Myths of the Flood, and the “Book of the Islands”
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Unauthorized Versions: Jeanette Winterson, Michele Roberts, and the Myth of the Flood
Contemporary Women's Writing, 2011Jeanette Winterson’s second novel, “Boating for Beginners” (1985), has been treated by both herself and many of her readers as an aberration. While accepting that this novel is a comic and youthful “jeu d’esprit”, this article argues that, by comparing it with Michele Roberts’ “The Book of Mrs Noah” (1988), it is possible to understand how closely ...
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh and Others
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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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