'flireupon, not being difK>bedient (to the heavenly
vision), he built a vessel five sCadU in kqgtk in breadth. Into this be put ererytfalBg vlod prepared, and embarked in it Ids wife» kis d and his personal friends. After the And ki upon the earth and was in time abated, out some birds from the veeeel, wluc^ aoi food, nor any place whne they coold xest, thither. After an interval of aonie days ) sent out the birds a second time, and now ther ed to the ship with mud on their feet. AAi he repeated the experiment, and ^ma they no more ; whence Xisutlms }n6^&d that the «at visible above the waters, and aooardinigiy he opening in the vessel (?), and, seeing ftat ft n ed upon the site of a certain mooatain, he ^sa^j with Ills wife and daaghter and the pikd. Bi then paid his adoration to the earth, and hcnsg an altar and ofiiared sacrifices to the igoda, hcti^ with those who had left the veeael with fahi.fia peared. Those who had remaioed behind, whetw found that Xisuthrus and his eompanions fidvp turn, in their turn left the veaael and begm iiia>tf him, calling him by his name. Him th^ avi more, but a voice came to them from heaves, hiife them lead pious lives, and so join him vbo wai pmi live with the gods, and further inlbsmiog tin his wife, his daughter, and the pilot had sbsai > same honor. It told them, moreover, that ther ^a return to Babylon, and how it was otdaiaed t&it ^ should take up the writings that had been baMt Sippara and hnpart tiiem to numkind, aod tkc ^ country where they tlien were was the lud eClsm nia. The rest, having heard these words, ofcwl » rifices to the gods, and, taking a drcnit, jo«a^» Babylon. The vessel being thus stranded m iv nia, some part of it still remalna in the BMNBtn i the Corcyrssans (or Gordysana, L e. the Hiabt Kurdistan) in Armenia, and the people scoipe ttCf bitumen firom the vessel and make me of it faf ny^ charms. Now, when those of whom we hare i?«< returned to Babylra, they dug up the writiap «i>i had been buried at Sippara ; they also foasdel bf cities and built temples, and thus the ooanttr d B«9- lon became inhabited again'* (Cory's Jmfi^f'W mentis p. 26-29). Another version aindged, M si- stantially the same, is given from Abydenos {My 88, 84). The version of Eupolemns (quoted fer fi"- bius, Pnep. Ewmg. x, 9) is carious : **iTie dty rfB* ylon," he says, •* owes its foundation to those wfcote saved fh>m the Deluge; they were giants, ui tier built the tower celebrated in htstoiy."
Other Western Asiatic notices of a Fkiodnif ^ fbund (a) in the Phoenician myth(4ogy, where ^ ^ tory of PontuB (the sea) over Demaroos (the tatfca mentioned (see the quotation Ihnn Sancksoatka s Cory, as above, p. 18); (h) hi the Sibyffiae (M* partly borrowed, no doubt, from the BiUiesl bbb^- and partly perhaps ftttm some Babylonian tb«J- ^ these mention is made of the Deluge, aits viiei^ nos. Titan, and Japetus ruled the woiM, es^tikiB;^ separate portion for himself, and remaining it Jf^ till after the death of Noah, when Kronos totf J^ engaged in war with one another (/ft. p. 53)^ T« ^ must be added (c) the Phrygian story of kJagAiB- kos or Nannakos (Enoch) in Iconium, who n^"^ age of more than 800 years, foretold the Flood,ai wept and prayed for his people, seeing the detfnctt> that was coming upon them. Very cnrioos, a ^' ing what deep root this tradition mast hare taka* the country, is the feet that so late as the tine tf 9t timius Severus a medal was stm^ at Ap<oa' which the Flood is commemorated, "lied!?' known to have been formerly called * Eab6to8,' *'<^ Ark ;* and it is also known that the coins of <^' that age exhibited some leading point in tbekv^ logical histoiy. The medal in question tfifi90/i > kind of square vessel floating in the water. Tti^
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an opening in it are seen two persons, a man and a woman. Upon the top of this chest or ark is perched a bird, wliilst another flies towards it carrying a branch be- tween its feet. Before the vessel are represent- ed the same pair as hav- ing jost quitted it, and got upon the diy land. . of A^^^nrTITrygto, rep. Stogularly enough, too^ resenting the Deluge. ^^ •**™® specimens or
this medal, the letters , or NOE, have been foond on the veseel, as in the keiied cut. (See Eckhel, iii, 182, 183; Wiseman, 'tureM an Science and Revealed Reliffum^ ii, 128, 129.) is fact ia no doubt remarkable, but too much stress ist not be laid upon it; for, making fiill allowance the local tradition as having oo^pioned it, we must : forget the influence which the Biblical account •uld have in modifying the native story. See Apa- :a.
ka belonging to this cycle of tradition must be reck- ed also (1) the Syrian, related by Ludan (De Ded rrdyC. 18), and connected with a huge chasm in the rth near Hieropolis, into which the waters of the ood are supposed to have drained ; and (2) the Ar- enian, quoted by Joeephus {AnL i, 8) from Nicolaus amascenus, who flourished about the age of Augus- A. He says : *' There is above Bfinyas, in the land ' Armenia, a great mountain, which is called Baris . e. a ship], to which it is said that many persons fled i the time of the Deluge, and so were saved ; and lat one in particular was carried thither upon an ark lire Xapvaxoc), and was landed upon its summit, and aat the remains of the vessel's planks and timbers rere long preserved upon the mountain. Perhaps liis was the same person of whom Moses, the legisla- OT of the Jews, wrote an account."