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Compare and Contrast the Flood Myth between west and east Guchuan Chang (Jetty) Group 8Matt HildebrandApril 1, 2015 AbstractAlmost every culture have myth story about flood. However, part content of those are similar, partially are different. They are same in they all escape to high place and human reproduction after the flood. The differences are about the cause of the great flood and another one is what god played in the flood. Currently, more and more people pay much more attention to an assumption that there was a universal flood sweep the globe in ancient time.It’s a very strange and mysteriousphenomenon that every culture had at least one flood myth. Looking at all of the flood mythsover the world, they can be divided in two large divisions: the flood myths of western culture and the flood myths of eastern cultures. Again, according to different areas, western flood mythscan be divided into many different specific stories: Babylonian, Biblical, Sumerian, Mesopotamian and on and on. Also, eastern flood myth can be divided in Indian flood myth and the flood myth in China. There are many interesting differences and similarities in the flood myth between western and the other countries. There are different in so far as the cause of the great flood and what role god play in the flood, they are the same in they all escape to high place and human’s reproduction after the flood.The reason of the great flood coming is different between western cultures and eastern cultures.In western culture, the flood coming allbecausehuman do a lot of bad things, thenflood coming because of god’s angry. The best known stories in the west is the story of the Noah’s Ark in the Bible, but it is looks like a copy of the flood stories of Mesopotamia recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In these two stories, human evil leads god to want to give a punishment to humankind, then god determines to use the flood to wipe out humanity. According to Habel (1971), in his