2. Flood Myths Around The World
Jewish/Christian
Aztec
Hawaiian
Similarities
Tower of Babel
Conclusion
3. Noah and the Flood
Noah was surrounded by evil.
God regretted making
humans.
God warned Noah about the
flood.
God promises never to flood
the world again, he shows this
with a rainbow.
5. Hawaiian Flood Myth
God sends a flood.
Nuu is warned about the flood.
Nuu builds a vessel called the royal
vessel.
Nuu brings his wife and his 3 son’s
wives.
The cave remains there to this day as
a testimony .
6. Similarities
Humans became evil so god/gods wanted to start over.
Some how the humans get warned about the flood.
Humans are spared by either building a boat of some
kind.
7. Why these myths have similarities.
Tower of Babel.
Bible story of Babel.
Myth of Babel.
9. Photo Credits
Noah's ark rainbow covenant. (2007). [Web]. Retrieved
from http://www.solarnavigator.net/noahs_ark.htm
Lydon, T. (Photographer). (2010). Mexican flag. [Web].
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mexico-as-etf-hotspot/
Mauna kea – the highest peak of the earth. (2010).
[Web]. Retrieved from http://wonders-of-nature.net/
Llama. (2010). [Web]. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama
10. Photo Credits Continued
The tower of babel was an astronomical observatory..
(2007). [Web]. Retrieved from
http://www.reformation.org/cross-busters.html
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http://worldcultures09up.pbworks.com/w/page/15366
281/FrontPage
Hinweis der Redaktion
royal vessel, in which he and his family, consisting of his wife, Lilinoe, his there sons and their wives, were saved.
When the flood subsided, Kane, Ku, and Lono entered the waa halau of Nuu, and told him to go out. He did so, and found himself on the top of Mauna Kea (the highest mountain on the island of Hawaii).
Bible story- “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”