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Mythology

a widespread narrative of a great flood sent to destroy humanity, with a few survivors who renew the world, compared across cultures in Dundes's casebook.

In mythology, flood myth refers to a widespread narrative of a great flood sent to destroy humanity, with a few survivors who renew the world, compared across cultures in Dundes's casebook. This meaning comes from Dundes (1988) in The Flood myth.[1]

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Dundes, A. (1988). The Flood myth. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520059733

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