The Oldest Flood Myth and its Origin

If you think flood myths started with the Biblical story of Noah, or the Epic of Gilgamesh, you'd be mistaken. In this video I look at a phylogenetic study about the origin of the Flood Myth, to find out where it started, and when. And in doing so I also discover a very early form of creation myth, and you won't find these answers in Genesis, in fact what we discover are versions of a very old flood story indeed, one of the oldest stories in the world.

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References:
Berezkin;s Database: http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/berezkin
Berezkin, Yuri E. 2007. “‘Earth-Diver’ and ‘Emergence from under the Earth’: Cosmogonic Tales as Evidence in Favor of the Heterogenic Origins of the American Indians”. Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 32(1): 110–123
Frazer, James. 1918. Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. London: MacMillan & Co
Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row, New York, 1969. (Most of the flood stories in this work are taken from Frazer, 1919
d’Huy, Julien. 2013. “Le motif du dragon serait paleolithique: Mythologie et archeologie”. Prehistoire du Sud-Ouest 21(2): 195–215
d’Huy, Julien. 2014a. “Recueils de contes et nuages de mots”. Mythologie francaise 255: 14–18
d’Huy, Julien. 2014b. “Motifs and Folktales: A New Statistical Approach”. RMN Newsletter 8: 13–29
d’Huy, Julien. 2016. “Premiere reconstruction statistique d’un rituel paleolithique: Autour du motif du dragon”. Nouvelle Mythologie Comparee – New Comparative Mythology 3: 15–47
d’Huy, Julien. 2017a. “Entre Ciel et Terre: Reconstruction d’une mythologie paleolithique”. Mythologie francaise 267: 4–9
d’Huy, Julien. 2017b. “Un recit de plongeon cosmogonique au Paleolithique superieur?”. Prehistoire du Sud-Ouest 25(1): 109–117
d’Huy, Julien. 2017c. “Matriarchy and Prehistory: A Statistical Method for Testing an Old Theory”. Les Cahiers de l’AARS 19: 159–170
d’Huy, Julien. 2020a. Cosmogonies: La Prehistoire des mythes. Paris: La Decouverte.
d’Huy, Julien. 2020b. “Premiere mythologie du serpent et art rupestre saharien”. Les Cahiers de l’AARS 21: 135–144
d’Huy, Julien, & Yuri E. Berezkin. 2017. “How Did the First Humans Perceive the Starry Night? – On the Pleiades”. RMN Newsletter 12–13: 100–122
Witzel, E.J. Michael. 2012. The Origins of the World’s Mythologies. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
2:42 Hidden Flood Myths
3:56 Are all Flood Myths the same?
5:56 Berezkin's Database of Motifs
7:11 How the data was analyzed
8:02 Potential issues and their potential effect
10:47 How do myths spread?
13:09 The spread of myth
14:57 Results of the Study - The Diffusion of Myth
18:47 Study 1: Out of Africa?
21:19 Study 1: Out of America or Asia?
22:10 Study 2: Evolution of Motif
23:39 Finding a Creation Myth
26:52 The Deluge and Conflagration Combined
27:39 Hurting someone to trigger a Deluge
28:23 Conclusion