Manu and Mesopotamian flood traditions, without compressing their differences.
Motif families: Floods & survivors
Gilgamesh XI as preserved on the Flood Tablet.
One material witness, not the whole history of the tradition.
A warning, a vessel, survival through a flood, then birds sent out to seek land.
∿The preserved tablet carries a sequence of bird releases as well as a warning and a boat.
Manu and the fish in Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.
One inspected episode; later versions should be separate records.
A fish warns Manu, has him prepare a boat, and guides it through the flood.
∿The inspected passage is Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1. A modern translation is a route to that text, not a date for the event.
A common sequence is often presented as deep shared memory. South and West Asia also require a serious regional-transmission check.
The project’s broad flood inquiry motivates the comparison; this entry narrows it to two inspectable source families.
Flood stories: text-coding pilot
Regional transmission is a live possibility, not excluded by this catalogue. Retained as a boundary case for the anomaly claim.
Provisional editorial record; no independent specialist sign-off. Status describes review depth, not the probability of a historical connection.
Source selection and coding limitations are retained. This study is not a worldwide proof of independent invention or one original event.
The fish warns Manu and guides his boat. The bird-release sequence is not part of this inspected episode.
Seventh-century BCE tablet from Nineveh, preserving Gilgamesh XI. The date is of the surviving tablet, not the birth of the flood story.