Note 944 — Chapter XXXIV · THE LEGENDS OF ADAPA, AND OF THE FLOOD

The myth of the Deluge is practically world-wide, except in Africa (including Egypt), “where native legends of a great flood are conspicuously absent—indeed, no clear case of one has yet been reported.” J. G. Frazer, Folklore in the Old Testament (London, 1918), vol. I. p. 40. Maspero seems quite wide of the mark in treating the semi-ritual myth of the Destruction of Man as “a dry deluge myth,” Dawn of Civilization (London, 1894), pp. 164 ff. For various accounts of the Deluge, see Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, article Deluge (Edinburgh, 1911).