thank you so much bandit and miclason for sharing some flood stories ....
the Popol Vuh is a beautiful creation poem or book and it is said that it is the beginning of the ancient word in a place called Quiche and there is the original book and ancient writing, but the one who reads and assesses it has a hidden identity..... if I recall first men were made of mud, then wood, then a gruel ofyellow and white corn which was taken from its hiding plae in a sacred mountain .... so the mud is probably the clay ....
here is a story of the flood from the Gilgamesh epic ... "Gilgamesh has made a long and difficult journey to learn how Utnapishtim acquired eternal life. I answer to his questions, Utnapishtim tells the following story. Once upon a time, the gods destroyed the ancient city of Shuruppah in a great flood. But Utnapishtim, forewarned by Ea, managed to survive by building a great ship. His immortality was a gift bestowed by the repentant gods in recognition of his ingenuity and his faithfulness in reinstituting the sacrifice."
this one is part of a translation from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature ... referred to as Segment D "All the windstorms and gales arose together, and the flood swept over the .... After the flood had swept ove the land, and waves and windstorms had rocked the huge boat for seven days and seven night, Utu the sun-god came out, illuminating heaven and earth. Zi-ud-sura could drill an opening in the huge boat and hero Utu entered the huge boat with his rays. Zi-ud-sura the king prostrated himself before Utu. The king sacrificed oxen and offered innumerable sheep.
Here also is a web site (I hope it is still there)
http://www.bearfabrique.org/floods/mfloods.html that has a 32 page article that supports the concept that there was in fact a major flood worldwide that occurred , it is written by a man named Charles Ginenthal who also wrote a book called "Carl Sagan and Immanuel Velikovsky" .... long, but a great article on floods ....
hope there will be other flood stories posted .... aloha nui, pohaikawahine