What are the myths and stories of the Great Flood?

China ancient myths about the great flood and the goddess of mending the sky.

Most of the records about floods in ancient China were related to water control. The sky is rotten, it rains cats and dogs, floods and bodies float, which makes the sky better. Nu Wa was deeply saddened to see the tragic image of human beings hiding in Tibet and having nowhere to live. After passing through Gankun, in order to save lives, she decided to quarry stones to fill the sky.

Nu Wa spent 998 1 day on Tiantai Mountain, refining a five-color boulder with a thickness of 12 feet and a width of 24 feet, which was called good by the gods. So according to this method, it took another four years to refine 36,500 pieces of five-color stone, plus the previous piece of * * * 3650 1. The immortal and the general used 36,500 yuan to help the goddess mend the sky. Because stones are colored, they form rainbows and rosy clouds in the sky.

Historically, human beings have the history of matriarchal society, and the goddess Nu Wa may be the deification of tribal female leaders. This statement is objective, but it may not touch the root of national culture. To trace the source, it is necessary to investigate the national (racial) cultural psychology. Jung called it "cultural collective unconsciousness", which can be considered as cultural instinct.

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Stories about water management abroad

1, western flood

According to the Book of Enoch, about 200 angels came to the world privately, and they fell in love with human women. Then 200 angels married humans and gave birth to giants. Prometheus brought bad news to the giant. God punished in anger and imprisoned all the angels, but they were not put to death. The earth will send floods to destroy giants and wash away all evil in the world. Only good people can survive.

2. Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark is the most widely known myth and legend of the great flood abroad. God chose Noah's family: Noah and his wife, three sons and their daughter-in-law, and kept them as the seeds of a new generation of mankind.

God told them to do great damage with the flood, and told them to build an ark of gopher wood, which was divided into rooms and coated with rosin inside and outside. The ark is 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high. There should be a transparent window above the cabinet and a door next to it. The ark should be divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. They did it at once.

3. Myths and legends about floods in the Mediterranean.

Some early texts of the flood myth mostly appeared in some ethnic groups around the Mediterranean, the earliest of which undoubtedly dates back to Mesopotamia. The word "Mesopotamia" comes from Greek, which means "the area between the two rivers", that is, the two river basins of Tigris and Euphrates in southwest Asia, and now eastern Syria and Iraq.

This is one of the earliest cradles of human civilization. As early as 5000 BC, there were villages and temples built with mud bricks and metal products. Around 3500 BC, Sumerians created the oldest cuneiform characters in the world.