Across cultural traditions

Floods & survivors

A boat is a broad resemblance. A sequence of actions is a more precise question.

2 selected records · 0 intake leads. Membership records a resemblance; it does not establish common origin.

Compare the recorded features

Each row describes one object, surface or textual scope. A dash means “not recorded”, not “absent”. Features across different rows do not establish co-occurrence.

Record & scope	Warning	Boat or vessel	Bird-release sequence
Gilgamesh XI · Flood Tablettextual episode	Recorded	Recorded	Recorded
Manu and the fishtextual episode	Recorded	Recorded	—

Cultural context

Mesopotamian accounts

Account · editorial paraphrase

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

Source-linked observation

Gilgamesh XI · Flood Tablet

7th century BCE · tablet

WarningBoat or vesselBird-release sequence

Flood Tablet witness includes a vessel and bird-release sequence; those birds do not transfer to every flood story.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: textual episode

7th century BCE · tablet · witness
Age of this material witness, not the beginning of the story. Date source

Flood Tablet · K.3375 · Flood stories: text-coding pilot

Cultural context

Vedic textual tradition

Account · editorial paraphrase

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

Source-linked observation

Manu and the fish

Date unresolved

WarningBoat or vessel

Fish warning and boat in the cited passage; no bird-release claim entered.

Episode, sources & image

Observation scope: textual episode

Date unresolved · unresolved
An early composition range and manuscript witness history have not been audited for this entry.

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1: Manu and the fish

Input coverage & corrections · Add an image or source

Gilgamesh XI · Flood Tablet

Manu and the fish

The proposed connections.