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[[Older Than Dirt|Older than the book itself]], this is the one element that seems nearly ubiquitous in mythology, and with good reason: it may have had a basis in reality (a hypothesized late Pleistocene/Early Holocene flooding event, possibly from a [[Colony Drop|small asteroid impact]] or earthquake off the coast of Madagascar causing a tsunami), but as a kind of cultural memory it forms the backbone of many origin mythologies, from the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime to the biblical Book of Genesis. Usually the moral of the story is "don't piss off the gods," but sometimes the flooding is part of the process of (re)creating a world.
Some scientists argue that the prevalence of the Great Flood in Eastern Mediterranean myth derives from a historical event, in which the [[wikipedia:Black Sea|Black Sea]] was [[wikipedia:Black Sea deluge theory|suddenly flooded]] in about 5600 BCE.
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