The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts.

Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth ; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh ’ s journey to meet Utnapishtim.

* Gilgamesh flood myth

2000-1500 BC, has a flood myth where the angry gods send flood to punish humanity, but the ancient hero Utnapishtim and his family are saved through the intervention of the goddess Ea.

The story of Utnapishtim, the hero of the flood myth, can also be found in the Babylonian Epic of Atrahasis.

This account matches the flood story that concludes the Epic of Atrahasis ( see also Gilgamesh flood myth ).

Andrew R. George submits that the flood story in Genesis 6 – 8 matches the Gilgamesh flood myth so closely, " few doubt " that it derives from the Mesopotamian account.

* Gilgamesh flood myth

The medieval myth of Partholon says that his followers were the first to invade Ireland after the flood, but the Fomorians were already there: Seathrún Céitinn reports a tradition that the Fomorians, led by Cíocal, had arrived two hundred years earlier and lived on fish and fowl until Partholon came, bringing the plough and oxen.

Although each version of the flood myth has distinctive story elements, there are numerous story elements that are common to two, three, or four versions.

The earliest version of the flood myth is preserved fragmentarily in the Eridu Genesis, written in Sumerian cuneiform and dating to the 17th century BC, during the 1st Dynasty of Babylon when the language of writing and administration was still Sumerian.

The Sumerian word KUR in line 140 of the Gilgamesh flood myth was interpreted to mean " mountain " in Akkadian, although in Sumerian, KUR did not mean " mountain " but rather " land ", especially a foreign country.

Among the interesting features of this version of the flood myth, are the identification, through interpretatio graeca, of the Sumerian god Enki with the Greek god Cronus, the father of Zeus ; and the assertion that the reed boat constructed by Xisuthros survived, at least until Berossus ' day, in the " Corcyrean Mountains " of Armenia.

The Epic of Atrahasis provides additional information on the flood and flood hero that is omitted in Gilgamesh XI and other versions of the Ancient Near East flood myth.

One version of the myth holds that Ruatapu drowned in the flood and that her bowels became the first jellyfish ( Craig 1989: 237, Reedy 1989: 142-146 ).

She absorbed this role from another cow goddess ' Mht wrt ' (" Great flood ") who was the mother of Ra in a creation myth and carried him between her horns.

A recent study by Turney and Brown links the 8, 500 years ago drainage to the expansion of agriculture from east to west across Europe ; he suggests that this may also account for various flood myths of prehistoric cultures, including the Biblical flood myth.

* In some versions of the Greek flood myth, the ark of Deucalion comes to rest on the slopes of Parnassus.

According to myth, the pyramid was built by a giant named Xelhua of adobe bricks, after he escaped a flood in the neighboring Valley of Mexico.

In the Sumerian King List, it relies on the flood motif to divide its history into preflood and postflood periods.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

The flood is not as great -- only 700 a week according to one apparently conservative account -- but it is symptomatic.

In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.

While a flood will kill most plants living low on the ground in a certain area, if there is rice there, it will thrive in the wet conditions.

It is believed that melting Arctic ice will cause sea levels to rise and flood costal areas.

Downriver of Grand Coulee, each dam's reservoir is closely regulated by the Bonneville Power Administration ( BPA ), the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, and various Washington public utility districts to ensure flow, flood control, and power generation objectives are met.

Gradual silting of the lake would seem to be occurring ; during low-water level, it is only about 1. 5 meters deep, while at flood stage it is between 10 and 15 meters deep.

During flood stage, the Casiquiare's main outflow point into the Rio Negro is supplemented by an overflow that is a second, and more minor, entry river bifurcation into the Rio Negro and upstream from its major, common low-water entry confluence with the Rio Negro.

However during the Orinoco's flood stage, that single, simply defined " origin of the canal " is turned into a region, and an entire strip along the southern bank of the Orinoco River.

Yu the Great, one of China's legendary founders, is mostly known for his control of the flood.

It is the largest city bordering the Mississippi that has no permanent flood wall or levee.

Flooding, however, is often a problem in Davenport due to the lack of a flood wall.

This is nearly above the flood stage.

Based on data from marine magnetic profiles, a pulse of unusually rapid plate motion begins at the same time as the first pulse of Deccan flood basalts, which is dated at 67 Myr ago.

In all stages of stream erosion, by far the most erosion occurs during times of flood, when more and faster-moving water is available to carry a larger sediment load.

This is a pseudocode implementation of an optimal fixed-memory flood fill algorithm written in structured English:

Version 0. 46 of Inkscape includes a bucket fill tool, giving output similar to ordinary bitmap operations and indeed using one: the canvas is rendered, a flood fill operation is performed on the selected area and the result is then traced back to a path.

If the water is evaporated too slowly, the electrodes will flood, preventing the reactants from reaching the catalyst and stopping the reaction.

A related effect is flood frost which occurs when air cooled by ground-level radiation losses travels downhill to form pockets of very cold air in depressions, valleys, and hollows.

By early morning Thursday, June 22, a widespread evacuation of the valley's flood zone was underway.

The rains caused widespread flooding over a period of several weeks ; nearly every river basin in the eastern part of the state exceeded 500-year flood levels.

There is no effect of flood in most of the areas that it touches but it has caused widespread sufferings to the people in Terai and northern districts of Bihar.

Alleging that the Royalists would invade Axholme from the south, they broke down Misterton sluice and the Snow Sewer flood gates in 1642 or 1643, causing widespread flooding and damage estimated at £ 20, 000.

Following widespread flooding in Tewkesbury throughout the 2000 decade, Robertson spoke out against building on flood plains.

In Israel, there is no such evidence of a widespread flood.

Across the region, the rains caused widespread flood damage.

The 1899 flood was particularly widespread with extensive flooding of both the river and its tributaries, after a year with 785. 6 millimetres of rain compared to the Adelaide average of 530 millimetres.

Known as the keystone of the Central Valley Project, outflow from Shasta Dam provides electricity and irrigation for widespread areas of California below the dam as well as flood control for the Sacramento River during the rainy season.

Significant flooding was a serious problem for the local population and a major flood in 1877 led to widespread erosion and changed the course of the river in several areas.

Spring floods coming down the Potomac from Appalachia inundate low-lying portions of island's shores regularly, usually several times each year, while much larger floods, often from intense, widespread rainfall from tropical storms, flood the island more deeply several times a century.

Though 1890 brought a devastating flood which forced many families into difficulties and may have been responsible for the widespread of Prickly Pear which caused further hardship, many new names appear in Mungindi as selectors took up small blocks offered from land resumed after changes to land tenure in 1884 and as more tradesmen and businessmen took up residence in the town.

Extreme high tides in 1810 and again in 1820 resulted in widespread flooding, and further thought was given to improving the flood defences.

Two years later the 1974 Brisbane flood caused widespread damage.