André BUENO; José Maria Gomes de Souza NETO

Original title: O dilúvio e sua universalidade, uma abordagem transcultural

Published in The Kingdom of the Spirit

Keywords: China, Deluge, India, Mythography, Mythology, Near East, Universal Flood.

A transcultural analysis of mythography’s about universal floods in ancient civilizations reveals important narrative splits, which make explicit the problem of trying to unify them. In our text, we will seek to present and discuss some issues related to flood/deluge myths in civilizations from the Levant, passing through India and reaching China, an important counterpoint to Western narratives. This comparison allows us to understand the different epistemes from which these myths have been worked and disseminated, and the challenges for a heterotopic claim of narrative fusion.