The Great Flood

The motif of the great flood has fired people’s imagination for thousands of years across all continents. In Sumerian myths, the Bible, Indian epics, or the legends of South American Indians, almost the same scenario appears – the wrath of the gods, a water catastrophe, and a handful of survivors who begin the world anew. Is it possible that humanity preserved the memory of one real cataclysm that truly swept across the Earth? Scientists speak of local floods after the Ice Age, while conspiracy theorists point to ancient civilizations drowned by the ocean. So where does this consistency of myths come from? Is it a collective memory of a global tragedy, or merely a symbolic tale of humanity’s cleansing?