Name: Noah's Ark and Floods in the Ancient Near East: Crash Course World Mythology #16
Uploaded: 2022-06-26T03:02:54.000Z
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Hi, I'm Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Mythology,

and  we've spent a lot of this series on how various gods created the earth,

but now it's time to look at one way they destroy it.

Thoth put his swimtrunks on!   All right, we're all ready, let's get started!

You're probably familiar with the story of the flood from the Bible,

it turns out that alot of cultures have flood myths.

One explanation for this is the belief that myths are rooted in history.

Plus many of the earliest, complex societies grew around rivers--

--which would flood. Most of the time, that flooding was neither predictable,

nor helpful; except for the Nile river, whose floods were regular,

-were thought to be of divine significance.

Just ask Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile's floods.

Despite his frightening teeth, he also has a reputation for healing or protection in some stories.

-Anyway, flood myths may also reflect a common theme in some of the myths we've examined:

if water can bring life, it stands to reason,

You can see the symbolism in various purification rituals like baptisms,

They serve as tiny reenactments of floods

-where an old life is destroyed and a new life begins.

A tiny made-to-order single-serving flood:

Let's begin in ancient Mesopotamia with one of our favorite mythical sources:

At the beginning of this particular story

the hero, Utnapishtim, is talking to Gilgamesh

about living in the city of Shurupakk on the banks of the Euphrates.

Anu, Enlil, Ninurta, Ennugi, and Ea put their divine heads together..

luckily for Utnapishtim, Ea has second thoughts,

Ea secretly tells Utnapishtim what's going down,

which will carry the seed of all living things.

--an acre in circumference, with six enormous decks.

Utnapishtim and his family loaded up with everything there was:

all the silver, gold, and seeds of every living thing;

his kith, and his kin and the wild beasts, and all kinds of craftsmen--

--and also shuffleboard and a killer buffet!

--and also shuffleboard and a killer buffet! (I assume)

When the hour of destruction arrives, the gods send down a terrifying storm.

So terrifying that even the gods were afraid of the flood-weapon.

and when they see what they've done to their creation,

The storm rages for seven days before eventually blowing itself out.

Utnapishtim looks out of a porthole and sees that all of mankind has been destroyed

He's just become the world's first cruise ship captain..

and Utnapishtim sends out birds to search for dry land.

First,  a dove comes back,  because there was no place to perch,

and when it doesn't return, he knows dry land is out there...

and am-scrays off that oat-bay, lickety-split.

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