Such wide-spread desolation as is accredited to the deluge of Noah
must have made an indelible impression upon the human mind. We would
naturally look for references to it in Aryan, Phoenecian, Greek and
Hebrew history. They were the guardians of civilization. It is not
difficult to co-link even the rudest form of the flood traditions with
the terrible visitation so graphically related by Moses. Its shadow
will never pass from the historic page.
Men may criticise and ridicule the narrative given by Moses, yet the
fact remains that a self-sustaining history is there; and the combined
sophistry of all time cannot shake it.
An account of that great catastrophe is found in the mythological
narratives and traditional history of nearly or quite every people and
tribe of Adam’s race.
It is found among the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Scythians and
Celtic tribes. It has been discovered among the Peruvians and Mexicans;
the aborigines of Cuba, of North America and the South Sea Islands.
Even the inhabitants of Alaska preserve a tradition of the deluge; and
all point unmistakably to the deluge of Noah.
Recent investigations in the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon and in ancient
cities of Egypt confirm it by tablets preserved as veritable books.
Tradition as she sits amidst the crumbling ages of the past sings it in
our ears, while the sound of a universal deluge has gone out through
all the earth. It would require volumes to present these traditions
alone.