[[218]] Ibid., viii, 291.
[[219]] The Elder Edda, O. Bray, pp. 157 et seq. See also Teutonic Myth and Legend.
[[220]] The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great, E. Wallis Budge, pp. xl et seq., 167 et seq.
[[221]] The Koran, trans, by G. Sale, pp. 222, 223 (chap. xviii).
[[222]] Vana Parva section of the Mahàbhàrata (Roy's trans.), pp. 435-60, and Indian Myth and Legend, pp. 105-9.
[[223]] Vana Parva section of the Mahàbhàrata (Roy's translation), pp. 832, 833.
Chapter IX. Deluge Legend, the Island of the Blessed, and Hades
Abstract
Babylonian Story of the Flood--The Two Immortals on the Island of the Blessed--Deluge Legends in the Old and New Worlds--How Babylonian Culture reached India--Theory of Cosmic Periods--Gilgamesh resembles the Indian Yama and Persian Yimeh--Links with Varuna and Mitra--The Great Winter in Persian and Teutonic Mythologies--Babylonian Hades compared with the Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Teutonic, and Celtic Otherworlds--Legend of Nergal and the Queen of Death--Underworld originally the Grave--Why Weapons, &c., were Buried with the Dead--Japanese and Roman Beliefs--Palaeolithic Burial Customs--"Our Graves are our Houses"--Importance of Babylonian Funerary Ceremonies--Doctrine of Eternal Bliss in Egypt and India--Why Suppressed in Babylonia--Heavy Burial Fees--Various Burial Customs.
The story of the Deluge which was related to Gilgamesh by Pir-napishtim runs as follows:--