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Unit 5B Study Guide: Flood Myths

I have completed parts of this chart for you. You complete the rest. I have completed the guide for the first two myths for you, so you can see how this study guide works. I have included some information under the “Anything Noteworthy” heading and have left “holes” elsewhere for you to complete. Because of the lack of space, I have abbreviated several items.

Myth	Reason for Flood	Helper? How are humans saved?	After flood, what happens?	How earth repopulated?	Anything noteworthy?
*North American
*Mandan 129	Not told	Large barrel preserved religiously probably b/c this "big canoe" represents symbolic history of the flood	Not told	Not told
*Knisteneaux 130	Not told	Tribes climb ridge Coteau. Can't escape. On neutral ground now. Virgin grabs foot of big bird—flies to high cliff.	Not told	Virgin mates with war-eagle. Produces twins that re-populate the world.
*Choctaw 130	Not told		Not told		Sparse details, but is like Noah story
*Creek-Natchez 131	Not told		Sees spirits of those killed--those in rags and those in finery.	Not told
*Mojave-Apache 131	Took up grapevine and left hole?	Hummingbird helps people to find food by going up grapevine. People go through the hole of grapevine. Wise ones see water coming through the hole and cut down tree to hollow it for a canoe. Place a girl in it. Told not to leave until the canoe touches ground.			Also an emergence myth.
*Cree 132			Sends raven--no land. Wisagatcak makes magic with wolf	Not told how earth is repopulated but the wolf runs around on the moss that’s growing on the raft, causing the moss to magically expand the earth.	Water comes up today through holes in moss--cracks in raft
*Algonquin 133	Michabo follows trained wolves into lake.		Sends raven, otter and muskrat.
Flood Myth of Incas 134		Two brothers--good. Llamas, strange, stare at stars. Stars tell llamas of flood. Llamas tell brothers to take families and llamas to high mountain cave. Mountains grow taller as waters rise.		Shepherd brothers’ families repopulate earth	Llamas remember flood; prefer to live in highlands.
Flood Myth of Egypt 135	Humans wicked; on the verge of rebellion against gods. Hathor punishes humans by killing millions. Goes crazy killing.		Ra tires of humans and Hathor. Appoints Thoth as governor. Thoth teaches poetry, writing, self-government.	.	Thoth helps humans by educating them. World is definitely a better place now.