deluge (hinduism)

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Pattan's pumpkin

a traditional flood story from southern India
Pattan has an amazing pumpkin, that grows bigger than the goats, bigger than the elephants so BIG that it is as TALL as the mountains.
Cover image of Pattan's pumpkin

Manu's ark

India's tale of the great flood
2012
When King Manu prays for God Vishnu to protect the world, his prayers are answered with a tiny fish who grows larger and larger until he enters the ocean and announces that a great flood is coming and Manu must save his people and animals by putting them on an ark.
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