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Survivors of the Epic Floods

How does one survive an Epic flood that wipes out all of mankind on earth? Be righteous and gain favor among the Gods would be one answer. In the ancient stories Gilgamesh, Genesis, and The Metamorphoses of Ovid, all of mankind was wiped off the face of the earth with a global and epic flood. In each of these stories, there were two survivors a holy man and woman which in some way, with their divine character, held favor in the eyes of their Gods enough to be saved from the tragedy and repopulated the earth. What most wonder is why were these people saved and others wiped from existence. How did they survive or get warned ahead of time, of the incoming doom? Another thought is who where they and why were they revered above all others enough to be saved and what Character details were similar and different among the stories. These are the questions I hope to answer in the following Pages.
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