About the book: year / "In almost all cultures of the world there are legends about the Ecumenical Flood that are strikingly similar to each other - there are more than five hundred of them. In all of these legends have the same plot: humanity perishes from the Flood, only one man and his family are saved. In Western countries, this man is known as Noah, the Aztecs call him Nene, in the Middle East he is called “Atrahasis”, Utnapishtim or Ziusudra. life-saving means, then in the Bible it is called an “ark”, that is, a ship in Mesopotamian legends is an underwater vessel, and in Aztec legends it is about a hollowed out log."