alleged to be entirely unknown in the Nile Himavau. When the flood abated the god vn1ley, it is certain that the germs of the arose, struck the demon Hnya,grivah, recovered Deluge story are to be discovered even there. tho sacred books, instructed S11tyavrato. in According to the Egyptian historian lllane- a.11 heavenly sciences, and appointecl him the tl,o, quoted by Eusebius, Thoth, the first seventh Ma.nu, from whom tho second popu- Hermes, erected certain pillars with inscrip- lation of the earth descended in a super- tions, which, qftm· theDelugt, were transcribed natural manner, whence man is style(! :Mnnu- into book-s. Plato also st.ntes in the Timreus dsha (born of Manu). Vide Knli~ch, p. 203 ; (chap. v.) that a certain Egyptian priest .Auberlen's 'Di vino Revelation,' p. 169 informed Solon that the gods, when wishing (Clark's ' For. 'l.'hcol. Lib.'). to pnrifr the earth, were accustomed to over- 4. The Gi·ecian. It is sufficion t here to whelm it hy a deluge, from ~hich the herds- refer to the well-known story of Deuce.lion men and shepherds saved themselves on the and Pyrrha, first given in Pindar, and after- fops of the mountains. Josephus(' Ant.,' I. wards related by Apollodorus, Plutarch, iii. 9) certifies that Hieronymus the Egyptian Lucian, a.nd Ovid, whose account bears so refers to the Flood. A conception altogether close a resemblnnce to the Biblical narrative :mnlogous to that of Genesis is likewise to be o.s to suggest the probability of access to found in a myth belonging to the archaic Hebrew or Syrian sources of information. period of Seti I., which represents Ra, the The previous corruption of manners and Creator, as being disgusted with the insolence morals, the eminent piety of Deucalion, the of mankind, and resolving to exterminate determination "genus mortale sub undis them (vide Inscription of the Destruction perd.e:re," the construction of a boat by Divine of 1\[ankind, ' Records of the Past,' vol. vi. direction, the bursting of the storm, the p. 103). In short, the Egyptians believed not rising' of the waters, the uni Ve!sal ocean in that there was no deluge, bnt that there had which "jamque mare et tellus nullum dis- been several The absence of any indications cri.men habebant,'' the subsidence of the of this belief in the recovered literature of flood, the landing of the boat on Pnmassus ancied Egypt is not sufficient to set aside with its double peak, the consultation of the the above concnrrent testimonies to its exist- Deity " per sacras sortes," and the answer ence (Kitto, 'Bible Illustrations,' vol. i. p. of the god as to how the earth was to be re- 150; Rawlinson's 'Historical Illustrations peopled " ossaq ue post tergum magnre jac; of 0. T. ;' 'EncycL Britan.,' art. Deluge, tate parentis,'' are detailed with such ,graphic ninth edition). power as makes them read "like a~plified 3. The Indian. Through the theft of the reports of the record in Genesis." Indeed, sacred Vedas by the giant Hayagrivah, the by Philo, De11calion was distinctly regarded hnm.an race became fearlally degenerate, with as Noah. Cf. Ovid, ' Metamorph.,' lib. i. the ei.:ce1)tion of sev,m saints and the good f. vii. ; 'Kalisch on Genesis,' p. 203 ; Kitto's King Satyavrata, to whom the Divine spirit 'Bible Illustrations,' p. 150 (Porter's edi- Vishnu appeared in the form of a fish, in- tion); 'Lange on Genesis,' p. 294, note by forming him of bis purpose to destroy the Tayler Lewis ; Smith's 'Dictionary of the earth by a flood, and at the same time to Bible,' art. Noah. send a ship miraculously constructed for the 5. The American. Traditions of the Flood preservation of himself :md the seven holy appear to be even more numcrou& in the ones, along with their wives, and one pair of New World than the Old. The Esquimaux each of all the irrational animals. After in the North, the Red Indians, the Mexicans 6<:ven days the rain descended, when Satya- and the Brazilians in tho ccn tral parts of vrata; confiding in the promises of the god, America, and the Peruvians in tho South saw a huge ship drawing near, into which he have all their peculiar versions of the Deluge eu tercd ns directed. Then the god appeared story. Cha.sewee, the ancestor of the Dog- in the form of n fish a million miles long, rib Indians, on the Ma.ekensio river, accord- with an immense born, to which the king ing to Franklin, escaped in a canoe from a :made the ship fast, and, drawing it for flood which overflowed the earth, taking many years (a night of Brahma), at length with him all manner of four-footecl bea.sts landed it upon the highest peak of Mou11t and birds. '!'he Asteca, the Mixtr,ee, tbo OU. VIII. 16-22.] 'l'HE BOOK OF GENESIS. 135
Z11potees, and other nations inhabiting as stated by tho writer of the article Deluge Mexico nJI hnve, according to Humboldt, in the 'Encyclopedia Britannica,' is that the their Nonhs, Xisuthrns, or Manus (called Deluge stories were originally ether-myths, Coxcox, 'feocipnctli, or Tezpi), who eaves him- descriptive of the phenomena of the sky, self by II raft, or in II ship, which lands upon which have been transferred from the celestial the.summit of Colhuacnn, the Ararat of the regions to the earth; but, as Kalisch justly Mexico.ns. The legends of the Tamanacks observes, "the harmony between all these ac- relate that a man and woman saved them- counts isan undeniable guarantee that the tra- selves from the Deluge, and repeopled the dition is no idle invention;" or, as is forcibly earth by casting behind them the fruits of stated by Rawlinson, of a tradition existing th.e llfauritia palm tree (Kalisch, p. 205 ; among all the great races in to which ethno- Anberlen's ' Divine Revelation,' p. 171 ; logists have divided mankind,-the Shemites, Smith's 'Dictionary,' art. Noah). the Ha.mites, the Aryans, the Turanians,- What, then, is the conclusion to be drawn " but one rational account can be given, viz., from this universal diffusion of the Deluge that it embodies the recollection of a fact in story i The theory of Schirren and Gerland, which all mankind was concerned."