"Fire, Flood, and Famine", (Chapt.3 'Demonology and Disaster') By Hugh Soar

Flood is the most common disaster in mythology. Adad, the Babylonian/Assyrian thunder god was, when invoked by priests against his people's enemies. Lightning, flood and famine was his weapons he wielded.

In Babylonian flood we a re told that the whirlwind of Ramman rose high into the heavens, and light was turned into darkness. The map of the world provided with this article shows the distribution of sixty flood myths, of different types. H.S. Bellamy shows in 'Moons, Myths, and Man' it is possible to determine the location of recording of the myth; thus, a myth telling of a flood of warm water can be traced to the longer latitudes, though in view of the nomadic nature of primitive man, it would not be wise to place the location more precisely than either the Northern, or Southern life zone. If nothing else however, the map will show adequately the distribution of flood myth over the world. Here is the Map: