The Vedic fathers of geology

140 Tue Vepic Faruers or GroLoey.

water, except the highest mountain-tops, whereon a few stragglers found refuge. Deukalion _ was saved in a chest or ark which he had been forewarned by his father Prometheus to construct. After floating for nine days on the water, he at length landed on the summit of Mount Parnesses. Zeus having sent Hermes to him, promising to grant whatever he asked, he prayed that men and companions might be sent to him in his solitude. Accordingly, Zeus directed both him and Pyrrha (his wife) to cast stones over their heads: those cast by Pyrrha became women, those by Deukalion Men. * * * * Deukalion on landing from the ark, sacrificed a grateful offering to Zeus Phyxios, or the God of escape ; he also erected alters in Thessaly to the twelve great gods of Olympus.” ( Grote’s History of Greece. Vol. I. Chapter 5 )

A question, however, would naturally arise, that the catastrophe in the Shatapatha Brahmana refers to the Water-Deluge, as no mention is made of ice or snow in the whole narrative, and a such, this deluge might be some local flood: consequent upon heayy showers of rain. But, there seems no reason to entertain any doubt about this, as the deluge in the Shatapatha Bréhmana refers to the sweeping floods from the glaciated regions, and Manu appears to have