Note 9 to "Deep History"

The flood story occurs, without the context of punishment from God, in Hinduism. Noah is there called Manu. Manu was created by Brahma, the creator of the language's sounds and vowels and everything to do culture, science and architecture. All these branches of knowledge are collectively called Upapurãna. Svâyambhuva Manu was the first created man and his wife's name was Satarupa. Equivalent to the Semitic Adam and Eve. One day Manu washed his hands and thereby accidentally caught a small fish. The fish stopped him and said: "Feed me, later I will save your life." The fish was in fact frightened to be eaten by a larger fish. Manu raised the fish, first in a pot, then into a lake and finally into the sea. One day the now-adult fish warned Manu that a great flood was imminent and that he had to build a boat. And indeed, the waters began to rise at the time the fish had indicated. Manu embarked the ship and tied it to the horn of the fish who took him to the mountains in the north. There Manu washed ashore and tied his ship to a tree on a mountain slope. Once the waters, that had swallowed all other people and even the three heavens, had receded Manu went down the mountain.

 

Link to Manu

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