"For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made. And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him."
Gen 7:4,5 (c. 2300 BC)

The Great Deluge ⬇️

Exhibit A⬇️

"...The flood came forth. Its power came upon the peoples like a battle,
one person did not see another, they could not recognize each other in the catastrophe..The deluge belowed like a bull...the darkness was dense, the sun was gone..."

From: The Epic of Atrahasis

The Epic of Atrahasis, an Akkadian/Babylonian poem recorded on clay tablets, tells the story of mankind's creation and a great flood sent by the gods to decimate humans on Earth.

The tablets are said to date back to the 18th century BC though the Flood tale itself is much older.

In the poem, Atra-hasis, the 'exceedingly wise' (a.k.a. Ziusudra, said to be the last Sumerian king before the deluge), had been warned by god Enki (a.k.a. Ea) of the coming disaster and instructed him to build an ark to save himself and his family.

Does it sound familiar? 🤔

Exhibit B ⬇️

"For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts. When the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided, the sea grew calm, the flood was stilled..."