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Cluster · 1 line of comparison · 0 without an established route · 1 motif family · 2 registered objects

Mesopotamian accounts

Vedic textual tradition

1 separate line of comparison join these two traditions in this collection. 0 of them have no established route.

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Motif families: Floods & survivors

Cultural context

Mesopotamian accounts

Literary traditions with multiple periods and surviving witnesses; their recording dates do not date the narrated events.

Registered dated episodes: 700 BCE to 601 BCE.

  • Gilgamesh XI · Flood Tablet7th century BCE · tablet · witness
Cultural context

Vedic textual tradition

One inspected Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa episode; composition and manuscript chronology remain to be audited.

No numerical episode date is yet registered here.

  • Manu and the fishDate unresolved · unresolved
Line 01 · Sources partly checked

A warning, a boat, a world remade

Manu and Mesopotamian flood traditions, without compressing their differences.

Account · editorial paraphrase

A warning, a vessel, survival through a flood, then birds sent out to seek land.

Gilgamesh XI · Flood TabletMesopotamia
Account · editorial paraphrase

A fish warns Manu, has him prepare a boat, and guides it through the flood.

Manu and the fishSouth Asia · Manu account
What appears to correspond
  • A warning and prepared vessel enable survival through a flood.
What differs or remains uncertain
  • Manu’s guiding fish differs from the Mesopotamian divine warning.
  • Bird releases belong to the inspected Gilgamesh account, not to this Manu episode.
Transmission check

Regional transmission remains possible

Regional transmission is a live possibility, not excluded by this catalogue. Retained as a boundary case for the anomaly claim.

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Keep in the frame

What would move this cluster forward?

Collected comparisons accumulate; they do not compound into proof. Each line still needs its own dated sequence.

  • Audit early witnesses and possible pathways between these regions.
  • Compare unusual event sequences rather than a generic flood label.
Follow the evidence

Sources & scope

Provisional editorial records with no independent specialist sign-off. Review stages describe how far sources were checked, not the probability of a historical connection.

  1. project · Deep Memory

    Flood stories: text-coding pilot

    Source selection and coding limitations are retained. This study is not a worldwide proof of independent invention or one original event.

  2. primary-text · Julius Eggeling translation

    Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1: Manu and the fish

    The fish warns Manu and guides his boat. The bird-release sequence is not part of this inspected episode.

  3. museum · British Museum

    Flood Tablet · K.3375

    Seventh-century BCE tablet from Nineveh, preserving Gilgamesh XI. The date is of the surviving tablet, not the birth of the flood story.