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    The document discusses common themes and symbols found in flood stories. It describes how floods are often seen as threatening or bringing an end to the world. It also notes that floods usually occur due to someone being responsible, often portrayed as the end of humanity, and discusses whether anything can be done to prevent them. Additionally, it outlines common symbols like wastelands representing spiritual decay, arks serving as saving ships of rebirth, and mountaintops as places of epiphanies closest to heaven. Water is a key image that destroys and saves, takes and gives life, signifies the end of order and return of chaos, and purifies the planet as humans must pass through it to triumph.

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    The document discusses common themes and symbols found in flood stories. It describes how floods are often seen as threatening or bringing an end to the world. It also notes that floods usually occur due to someone being responsible, often portrayed as the end of humanity, and discusses whether anything can be done to prevent them. Additionally, it outlines common symbols like wastelands representing spiritual decay, arks serving as saving ships of rebirth, and mountaintops as places of epiphanies closest to heaven. Water is a key image that destroys and saves, takes and gives life, signifies the end of order and return of chaos, and purifies the planet as humans must pass through it to triumph.

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    The document discusses common themes and symbols found in flood stories. It describes how floods are often seen as threatening or bringing an end to the world. It also notes that floods usually occur due to someone being responsible, often portrayed as the end of humanity, and discusses whether anything can be done to prevent them. Additionally, it outlines common symbols like wastelands representing spiritual decay, arks serving as saving ships of rebirth, and mountaintops as places of epiphanies closest to heaven. Water is a key image that destroys and saves, takes and gives life, signifies the end of order and return of chaos, and purifies the planet as humans must pass through it to triumph.

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    Cataracts of

    Heaven
    Cataract: A violent
    downpour or rush of
    water.
    The Flood

    ● An image perpetuated in literature and film as


    threatening or bringing about the end of the world.
    Questions to Think About

    ● Who is responsible for the flood (i.e. the end of


    humanity)?
    ● Can anything be done to prevent it?
    ● Why do we tell flood stories?
    Wasteland

    ● The Earth is in spiritual decay.


    ● Someone usually comes and discovers the land.
    One Good Man; One Good Woman

    ● The human race must begin again.


    ● The couple is a symbol of hope in the midst of
    despair.
    ● A new Adam and Eve.
    ● Humanity’s second chance.
    The Ark

    ● A saving ship, often designed by divine command.


    ● A vehicle of rebirth.
    ● Any structure that protects the good people.
    Mountaintop

    ● The place where epiphanies occur.


    ● The spot closest to heaven.
    ● The point easiest for communication with the gods.
    Water

    ● The image which shapes the whole story.


    ● It destroys and saves; it takes and gives life.
    ● Signifies the end of order, and the return of chaos
    to the Earth.
    ● Purifies the sinful planet.
    ● Humans must pass through water in order to
    triumph.

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