| Almost every ancient culture has a flood myth that | | | | Yao, a global rise in sea level filled the valleys to the |
| describes a man building a craft in order to genetically | | | | mountaintops and took ten years to irrigate. The most |
| survive the destruction of the Earth with water by | | | | fascinating thing about this myth was that it was to |
| gods. One of the oldest flood myths is the Sumerian | | | | have taken place in 2345 B.C. This also happens to be |
| "Eridu Genesis." The Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh," | | | | the date given in the timeline of Inches in The Great |
| the Laotian "Legend of Khun Borom," the Finnish | | | | Pyramid. |
| "Kalevala," the Indonesian "Batak," The Maori "Ngati | | | | It is not surprising, therefore, to find that the Chinese |
| Porou," The Malaysian "Temuan," the Norse "prose | | | | records describe precisely this sequence of events |
| Edda,"the Irish "Lebor Gabala Erenn," The Indian | | | | and this geographical location. The dated period in |
| "Shatapatha Brahmana," the Aztec "Codex | | | | which this Deluge is placed by the Chinese Shu-King, |
| Chimalpopoca," and the Inca "Viracocha," all have | | | | includes the date of the Deluge of Genesis.2 The |
| similar flood myths involving gods and a flood "Hero" of | | | | dates of the Shu-King, as will be seen, are also based |
| some sort. Joseph Campbell called this "The | | | | on the calendar datum and cycles of the First book of |
| Transformation of Myth Through Time." His theory | | | | Genesis. The Chinese Noah - the Fu-hi of Chinese |
| was that there might have been one cosmological | | | | mythology - is not only mentioned in relation to the |
| event from which all others are inspired. The telling of | | | | Deluge, but in connection with his sacrifice after the |
| the story through generations and migrations distorts a | | | | Deluge of certain of the animals saved with him (Gen. |
| universal truth that exists somewhere in the | | | | Viii, 20), and in connection with the rainbow covenant |
| consensus. | | | | of Genesis ix, 8-17 ( 196b). The Chinese date for the |
| The most interesting legend exists in a Chinese | | | | epoch of Fu-hi is the date in Genesis for the epoch of |
| historical account of a global flooding of the continents | | | | the house of Noah. |
| that turned mountaintops into islands. The scientific | | | | 2 The Deluge date of Genesis, 2345-2344 B.C., falls |
| community understands the continuity of certain | | | | within the reign of the Chinese King Yaou, who reigned, |
| civilizations through time and the evidence for a | | | | according to the Shu-King, from 2356 B.C. to 2254 B.C. |
| destruction of all humans by water just does not exist | | | | (W.G. Old. "The Shu-King," Appendix, pp. 301, 302). |
| in the archeological, historical, and genetic records. We | | | | Chinese records accordingly identify a great deluge |
| are asked to believe that all races descended from a | | | | within this reign. In the Shu-King (ibid., Section V) Yu, the |
| white, if not an Albino, descendant of Adam and his | | | | Chinese engineer and administrator, is represented |
| three white sons. Science would expect a better | | | | addressing the Emperor Yaou as follows:- |
| explanation. They do understand that there was a | | | | "When the floods were lifted to the heavens, |
| global rise in the tides at a time that approximates the | | | | spreading far and wide, surrounding the hills and |
| flood of Noah. | | | | submerging the mounds, so that the common people |
| The best corroborative evidence for this is the ancient | | | | were bewildered and dismayed... I drained off the nine |
| Chinese historical account of "The Flood That | | | | channels, directing them into the four seas; I dug out |
| Reached the Heavens." The Chinese "Book of History" | | | | ditches and canals and brought them into the rivers." |
| states that during the reign of the 1st Dynastic King, | | | | -The Great Pyramid, Davidson and Aldersmith, pp. |