TenjikuKensei
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Not sure i agree with Vishnu being related to the Abrahamic religions but i can see how Manu and Noah flood story has very similar apsects.
Actually history/archeology provides a very good case aginst the existence of a man called Noah. The story of Noah is (no offence intended) an almost word-to word copy of Earlier Sumerian/Babylonian epics. Particularly the story of the Immortal man Utnapishtim(babylonian) from the Epic of Gilgamesh.(or the similar (considred to be the same story) of Zizudra(Sumerian)). And this story predates the story of Noah by 2000 years.
The actual story can be read here
THE FLOOD NARRATIVE FROM THE GILGAMESH EPIC
It has everything from the flood, the Gods advising utnapishtim to build an ark, and select pairs of every living being, and the incessant rain...even down the birds Utnapihstim lets out to check if the floods have abated.
The biblical Abraham was from the region formaly known as Sumeria, thus it is no surprise he/his people were influenced by the Sumerian/Babylonian stories and incorporated them into their later religion.
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In both the Genesis and Galgamesh stories:
#The Genesis story describes how mankind had become obnoxious to God; they were hopelessly sinful and wicked. In the Babylonian story, they were too numerous and noisy.
# The Gods (or God) decided to send a worldwide flood. This would drown men, women, children, babies and infants, as well as eliminate all of the land animals and birds.
#The Gods (or God) knew of one righteous man, Ut-Napishtim or Noah.
#The Gods (or God) ordered the hero to build a multi-story wooden ark (called a chest or box in the original Hebrew).
#The ark would be sealed with pitch.
#The ark would have with many internal compartments
# It would have a single door
# It would have at least one window.
# The ark was built and loaded with the hero, a few other humans, and samples from all species of other land animals.
#A great rain covered the land with water.
# The mountains were initially covered with water.
# The ark landed on a mountain in the Middle East.
#The hero sent out birds at regular intervals to find if any dry land was in the vicinity.
# The first two birds returned to the ark. The third bird apparently found dry land because it did not return.
# The hero and his family left the ark, ritually killed an animal, offered it as a sacrifice.
#God (or the Gods in the Epic of Gilgamesh) smelled the roasted meat of the sacrifice.
# The hero was blessed.
#The Babylonian gods seemed genuinely sorry for the genocide that they had created. The God of Noah appears to have regretted his actions as well, because he promised never to do it again.
And the epic of Gilgamesh(of which the flood story is but a small part) predates the Genesis by 2 Millenia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth