Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
2-2022
Document Type
Capstone Project
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Digital Humanities
Advisor
Michelle A. McSweeney
Subject Categories
Digital Humanities
Keywords
mythology, flood, map, deluge, legend, digital
Abstract
Water, as the source of all life, has the power to create and destroy. Floods, prior to modern meteorology, would have been seen as acts of the divine, leading to the creation of flood myths, stories, and legends from many civilizations. The power of water transcends time and connects all of humankind. Present day examples including hurricanes here in the US (Katrina, Maria, Irene to just name a few) and tsunamis like at Fukushima. Mapping Flood Myths will look at flood myths and legends from all over the world and plot the locations of these myths on web map with interactivity allowing users to read the stories as well.
A majority of the current flood myth analyses have been targeting Euro-centric civilizations (Ex: Noah’s Ark/Christianity, Gilgamesh’s flood/Babylon, and Deucalion’s flood/Greek). With this project as a starting point, flood myths from other civilizations can be discovered and further researched. Aside from expanding upon disfavored flood myths, this project can be a starting point for further analysis of the importance of flood myths and how they shaped civilizations. This project can be a starting point for many new analyses to be made in the fields of geomythology, archaeology, meteorology and many more.
Recommended Citation
Rojas, Ashley Marie, "Mapping Flood Myths" (2022). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4698
WARC file, archived version of https://mappingfloodmyths.github.com/ created using ArchiveWeb.page application.
mappingfloodmyths.github.io-main.zip (86663 kB)
Zip file of Github Repository, https://github.com/mappingfloodmyths/mappingfloodmyths.github.io.