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The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
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A great flood came; people survived it on rafts and canoes. Darkness and high winds came, which scattered the vessels. When the flood subsided, people landed at the nearest land and lived where they had landed. Thus they were scattered all over the world, and when they met again long afterwards, they were different tribes and spoke different languages.
Theodor H. Gaster, Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament (Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1981), 119.