Özet:

When the history of mythology is carefully studied, it is possible to observe flood catastrophes that overthrow the old order of almost all cultures and build a new one. In the myths about the flood, human sinfulness is shown as the main cause of this catastrophe arising from divine power. Here, in the relevant religions and mythologies, water emerges as a purifying metaphor: The fact that it can be extremely lethal as well as life-giving reveals its mythological ambivalence. From the point of view of comparative mythology and the history of religions, flood myths are always narratives of transitional periods and narrated as a sign of apocalypse. The fact that very few good people survived this catastrophe is a common motif in mythologies around the world. In this study, while the flood myths of Indian, Greek, Sumerian and Turkish origins are examined, in a sense mise en scene and the main idea of the flood myth are discussed. It can be argued that the flood myth points to the traumatic periods of communities and that it means a backward apocalypse and thus a warning for the post-flood generations. These myths are related to the transitions between certain periods on the social level while they are about initiation on the individual level. Thus, a new order is built while the old order is demolished. Sinful and disobedient people are destroyed, but only those who follow the word of God, morals, and religious people are saved.

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