VOGUL FLOOD STORY

After seven years of drought, the Great Woman said to the Great Man that rains had come elsewhere; how should they save themselves.

The Great Man counseled the other giants to make boats from cut poplars, anchor them with ropes of willow roots 500 fathoms long, and provide them with seven days of food and with pots of melted butter to grease the ropes.

Those who did not make all the preparations perished when the waters came.

After seven days, the waters sank.

But all plants and animals had perished, even the fish.

The survivors, on the brink of starvation, prayed to the great god Numi-târom, who recreated living things. [Gaster, pp. 93-94]

Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row, New York, 1969. (Most of the flood stories in this work are taken from Frazer, 1919.)

Myth, Legend And Custom In The Old Testament: A Comparative Study With Chapters From Sir James G. Frazer's Folklore In The Old Testament (volume 1) - Anna’s Archive

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VOGUL FLOOD STORY

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