ProtnttbiM and Xeab are 

 the fame, j 



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Who hath not heard of Deucalion's Flood, how his Wife Tyrrba and he only 

 efcap'd in a little Boat, and (as 'tis Fabl'd) landing on a Mountain, from 

 thence Peopled the World again, by throwing Stones backwards over their 

 Heads ? Something of this feems to hint the true Story of Noah, his Wife^ 

 and Children, from whom the defolated World was replenifh'd. 



The fame they relate of Trometbeus, concerning whom, thus T>iodorus Sicu* 

 Ins : " They fay that the Kyle breaking through his Dams, and over-flowing 

 " his Banks, drown'd all Egypt, efpecially that part where Trometbeus Rul'd^ 

 " where all the Inhabitants were fwallow'd by the Deluge. None can ima- 

 gine but that Diodorus by this makes mention of a particular Flood,andnot the 

 general one in Noah's time 5 for as the Greeks afcrib'd all things to their Heroes, 

 fo the Egyptians in like manner did the fame to theirs : Therefore they have of 

 the general Flood,made a particular one in Egypt ^houoh perhaps it never was : 

 So that what is Fabled of Trometbeus, is nothing but a Part of the Univerfal 

 Deluge 5 which the Name Trometbeus proves, becaufe it fignifies, Sprung from 

 UeaVetiy&nd is the fame with Zvjtefc, whom they hold to be the firft Father of all 

 Mankind fincc the Flood, born of, or regenerated from his Wife Jfia 5 and Afia 

 fignifies Earth, or T/;e Mother of all things ; and fo eipoufing 2>{oah, being fprung 

 from God, to Ararat, from whence defcended the Generations of Mankind, 

 and by degrees fpread over the whole furface of the Earth. 



The Cbinefes,EaJl*Indians,Japanners, and other People of Aft a and Africa, have 

 alfo fome knowledge of a very ancient Flood ; but hood-wink't under many 

 idle Fancies, not unlike that which the Americans relate, from whom feveral 

 Learned Perfons find no oblcure Confe/fions of the Deluge, which thus my- a«>,i.i.c x$; 

 ftically they have wrapp'd up, That one Viracocha came out of the great Lake 

 Titicaca, and fetled his Refidence upon Tiaguanaco, where yet remain the Ruines 

 of ancient Walls, built after a wonderful manner : At length removing from 

 Ttaguanaco to Cufco, he began to multiply the Generation of Mankind. They 

 fliew in the foremention'd Lake a fmall Ifland, under which, the Americans fay •, Strange Opinion of the 

 the Sun fav'd himfelf from the Flood j wherefore in ancient Times they fu- HooT* 

 perftitioufly obferv'd that place, heightning their Bloody Sacrifices with Hu- 

 mane Slaughter. Others relate, That fix Perfons leap'd through a Hole out 

 of a Window, from whence all Men were fince Extracted 5 and from that new 

 Increafe, the place (after the Inhabitants of the Old World were all drown'd) 

 got the Denomination of TacariTampo 5 and therefore they hold the Tampo's to 

 be the moft ancient Families : From hence Mangocapam derived, being the Pri- 

 mogenitor of the Yttca's or Kings • from whom fprung two Generations >Flanoh 

 C«^co,and Urim Cu^co. They tell us alfo,That their T?ica's,wi.en they make W r ar 

 upon any People, fay that the occafion, as they pretend, was, becaule all Ter- 

 ritories are Tributary to them juftly, from whom they were deriv'd and rc- 

 ftor'd, being the firft Planters of the New World • and withal, That the true 

 Religion was declar'd to them from Heaven. 



This Relation, though mix'd with Fables, (hews (but very darkly) that 

 they have fome knowledge of the Flood : For who are thofe fix elie that *ttuw©ftfc£5turc 

 leap'd out of a Window to replenifh the Generations of Mankind, but Shem, 

 Ham, and Japhet, with their Wives > 



The Americans can give but a little better Account of their firft Original • 

 and indeed it is no wonder, becauie for want of Books they can relate ndthintf 

 certain, but only what they have R?giftred in their ufual Quipocamagos, which 

 is not above four hundred years old. Acofla asking what Original they judg'd 



D . they 



On'gi ul o( the Ameritan 

 Kingi a and their Cuiioat. 



Americans Flood 



