name string | description string | license string | landing_page string | columns list | count int64 | rows list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wheel of Heaven Flood-Myth Concordance | A comparative table of the ancient Near Eastern and Indo-European flood traditions — survivor, decreeing power, warner, cause, vessel, birds, landing place, and aftermath — with links to the digitized source texts. CC0 public domain. | CC0-1.0 | https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/flood-myths/ | [
"id",
"tradition",
"source_text",
"approx_date",
"survivor",
"flood_decreed_by",
"warned_by",
"cause",
"vessel",
"birds_released",
"landing_place",
"aftermath",
"woh_library"
] | 8 | [
{
"id": "sumerian-ziusudra",
"tradition": "Sumerian",
"source_text": "Eridu Genesis / Sumerian Flood Story",
"approx_date": "c. 1600 BCE (text)",
"survivor": "Ziusudra (king of Shuruppak)",
"flood_decreed_by": "The divine assembly (An, Enlil)",
"warned_by": "Enki",
"cause": "The asse... |
Wheel of Heaven Flood-Myth Concordance
A comparative table of eight ancient flood traditions — survivor, decreeing power, warner, cause, vessel, birds released, landing place, and aftermath — with links to the digitized source texts.
- Records: 8 traditions
- Columns / structure: tradition, source_text, approx_date, survivor, flood_decreed_by, warned_by, cause, vessel, birds_released, landing_place, aftermath, woh_library
- Formats: CSV, JSON
- License: CC0-1.0 (public domain)
- Version: 2026.07
Provenance
Extracted from the live Wheel of Heaven corpus and published as open data. A documented landing page with a citation widget lives at https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/flood-myths/; the same files are served from the project API at https://api.wheelofheaven.world/v1/.
Citation
Zara Zinsfuss. Wheel of Heaven Flood-Myth Concordance. Wheel of Heaven, 2026. CC0-1.0. https://www.wheelofheaven.world/datasets/flood-myths/
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