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On the other side of the world, Greek mythology too is replete with memories of a great
deluge. In the most widespread version of the story Prometheus impregnated a human female. She
bore him a son named Deucalion, who ruled over the country of Phthia in Thessaly. Deucalion
married Pyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora. When Zeus reached his fateful decision to
destroy the bronze race, Deucalion "forewarned by Prometheus, made a wooden box, stored in it
'all that was necessary', and climbed into it with Pyrrha. The king of the gods caused mighty rains
to pour from heaven, flooding the greater part [not all] of the earth. All mankind perished in this
deluge, SAVE A FEW WHO HAD FLED TO THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS."

A variation of this story can be found in the Heliopolitan theology of ancient Egypt, where
the First Time deities of the land were all, in one sense or another, gods of creation who had given
shape to chaos through their divine will. Out of that chaos they formed and populated the sacred
land of Egypt. What was this "chaos"?

The Heliopolitan priests who spoke to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in the first century BC put
forward the thought-provoking suggestion that "chaos" was a FLOOD -- identified by Diodorus with the
earth-destroying flood of Deucalion, the Greek Noah figure:

In general, they say that in the flood which occurred in the time of Deucalion most living things were de-
stroyed, it is probable that the inhabitants of southern Egypt survived rather than any others... (Finger-
prints of the Gods, p. 388).

Finally, returning to Mesopotamia, we come across the tradition that the Noah figure Ut-
napishtim was instructed by the god Ea to take all the knowledge of the ages and consign it to writ-
ing and then to bury it in the City of the Sun at Sippara. After the waters of the flood had gone,
SURVIVORS were instructed to make their way to the site of the City of the Sun "to search for the
writings," which would be found to contain knowledge of benefit to future generations of mankind
(Berossus fragments cited in The Sirius Mystery, p.249).

Racial Evidence

Perhaps one of the more difficult problems proponents of a universal flood have to answer
-- and one they most often avoid -- is how could the eight survivors of the Flood produce the nu-
merous racial types of man that exist upon the earth.

A common belief among Christians is that all the world was populated from the descen-
dants of Noah's three sons. In other words, all tribes and races came from a common ancestral
population that started with Noah. These Christians are forced to place this common population,
consisting of eight persons, some time after the Flood since they believe in the extinction of ALL
people by a universal Flood.

Noah and his family were obviously of one race. The Bible states that Noah was "perfect
in his generations" (Genesis 6:9). The word "generations" here is the Hebrew word "TOLE-
DAH," and means "descent." Noah was perfect in his descent from Adam meaning his lineage had
not mixed with any other races. Many try to tell us that this racially pure family developed (or
evolved) into the present-day races, but never specifically explain how, when or why this transfor-
mation occurred.

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