Salinan Flood Story
A difference between the story of the Salinan flood and the story of the Sumerian flood was that in the Salinan flood a women had a basket that carried the sea and in the Sumerian flood story a God sent a flood. Even though a similarity in both stories was that both the floods were made out of hate, they both had different reasons. In the Salinan flood story the old women with the basket was jealous of the eagle so she decided to flood the land. But in the Sumerian flood story, the gods were angry at mankind so they decided to flood the land as well. Also in both of the stories there was a dove. In both stories the dove had done a similar thing, and that was to find land. In the Salinan story the dove made the world from what it had found which was mud. In the Sumerian story the dove had found land too. At the end of both stories, the people like the gods and the old women who landed on flooding land didn't work out at the end. Another difference in the story was that at the end of the Sumerian flood story the gods and mankind made up so that there wouldn't be anymore floods. Making a pledge to mankind wasn't exactly what the plan the gods were going for but at least everyone was ok at the end. In the Salinan story, the old women ended up dying so nothing good came out of what she did.
Source:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
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