  The history of Noah you all probably know but did you know that there are similar myths all around the world and on this page I will give you a couple of legends from south and central America When the myths first appeared are hard to say but the myths that I write about are from for example the Maya culture that begun 2500 B.C and it had its prime between 300-900 A.D. Or from the Aztec culture that founded it's capital in Mexico 1320 after many years of
drifting
from
up
north.
But they got conquered by the Spanish invaders 1521..  When
the gods
had created
all the animals they realized
that the
animals could not ”adore”
them.
They just could scream roar and peep. So they decided that they could create the humans The first man they created of clay but the clayman was to weak. The clayman could talk but it was impossible to understand what they said and when the gods lay the clayman in water it melted. So, the gods had to begin again and after a powwow the gods decided to try to build humans in wood. The wood man was almost a success. Coz' in no time it begun to reproduce and spreed all over the world. But the woodman had no sense and it could not remember its creator. So, the gods decided that they could extinguish the woodman in a big flood. After another powwow the gods made the humans in white and yellow maize and there arms and legs in dough of cornflour. And if we believe in this myth we are all descendants to the maize man. You newer now?  According
to
the Aztec's the history of
the world is
divided in to five suns and every sun is ended in a catastrophe
and one of the suns is called
the watersuns
aeon.
This aeon was ended by
a big flood
that
drowned all living creatures but they spared all the
fish and two
humans by the name Tata and Nena.
One day when Tata and Nena worked on the fields the watersun called upon them en told them. ”I am going to let a big tidal wave flood the world and it will drown every living creature” ”But I have decided that you two shall survive” ”how are we going to survive the flood” Nena asked ”you have to look for a big tree and hide like monkeys in a cavity in the stem of the tree.” ”but you have to chose a cavity that are high up near the peak of the tree.” said the watersun. ”and don't leave the cavity before the water have sunk.” ”But remember that when you have climbed back to the ground you can not be greedy you are aloud to take one maize-cob each noting more.” said the watersun: Nena and Tata looked for the highest and most firm tree that they could find and did like the watersun had told them. So, when the flood swept away every thing in its way they sat safe and secure in the cavity and when the water at last had sunken they climbed down to the ground. But because of their hunger they forgot the watersuns words and took two fishes and started a fire to grill them. When the watersun saw what they did he screamed. ”why didn't you obey me” ”I tooled you to only take one maize-cob each!” so, the watersun punished them he hit them in the head with a big stick so that they fainted. And than he removed the part in their brain that made them gods. So, because Nena and Tata did not listen we are not gods just humans. (See how it can go if you don't listen to the gods. Lol) 
When
the
Yamana people
came to the earth women
ruled over man but
man rebelled and killed all the womens
but
the leader by the name Hunuxa they could
not kill.
Coz' she fled up in the sky and became the moon and the scares from the battle you can still to this day see at the surface. Evan thou Hunuxa had survived she was angry at the people, so to revenge what they have done she threw her self whit all the power she had in to the ocean and caused a big terrifying wave that flooded the entire world. This
was just
a couple
of all the myths and histories
about catastrophes that was
caused
by floods that have been told.
Why I have selected stories from south and central America is just because I know them best but I know that it exists a lot of stories about floods from all around the world  The man noticed that one of his lamas seamed to be sick and did not want to eat. <>So,
he
asked
the
lama what was wrong.
Then the lama answered that
a big tidal
wave was about to flood the land and drown every thing
in its way.
But if you take me and the other animals whit you
maybe we can find a safe place.
So,the man gathered
all the animals and went to the peak of Villacacotos.
And when they
came there the mountain was
already
full with thousands of other animals but not a single
human. Coz'
the humans could not read
the signs
in the nature.
Than
the
flood came like the Lama had warned about and all the
animals and
humans that wasn't at the
peak drowned in
the flood.
It have been told that the only human that survived was the man on the top and that we all are related to him. (lucky for us that the man listened to the lama )
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