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Noah
"Noah ... the hero of the biblical Flood story in the...book of Genesis."
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"The story ... has close affinities to Babylonian traditions of apocalyptic floods."
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Chinese River Flood
"The flood on Asia’s third-longest river ... matches tales of a 'Great Flood'
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that marks the start of Chinese civilization with the Xia dynasty."
reuters.com/article/us-china-history-
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Aboriginal Peoples - Australia
"The Rainbow Serpent is ... the giver of life, due to its connection to water,
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however it can be a destructive force if enraged."
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Cassandra
"a woman in Greek mythology [was] cursed to utter
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true prophecies, but never to be believed."
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Japanese/Mongol Storms
"the kamikaze, or 'divine wind,' that twice saved Japan from Kublai Khan's Mongol fleets..."
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Native American (When Raven Was Killed)
"They went to the river, but it was dry. They went to a lake, but it was empty.
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There was no water to be found! Then the people began to get thirsty."
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Easter Island
"The island’s fragile ecosystem had been pushed beyond what was sustainable."
khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/polynesia-apah/a/easter-island-moai.org
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Egypt/Eastern Mediterranean
Causes of "the cataclysm: the invasion of ancient Egypt in 1177 BCE by ... 'SeaPeoples'
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... plus climate change, famines, droughts, rebellions, earthquakes."
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Greenland Vikings
"their way of life would have been impossible to maintain.
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... essentially victims of globalization and a pandemic."
smithsonianmag.com
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India/Pakistan
"The decline of ... the enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization"
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has been attributed to long-term drought.
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Ekoi/Nigeria
"Waters came, covered his farm, and threatened to cover the whole earth."
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Courlander, Harold. A Treasury of African Folklore, Marlowe and Company, New York, 1996.
talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
“the four riders are often seen as symbolizing … Pestilence … War, Famine, and Death.”
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