American Indians had a oral history of a great flood.
Selections from Immanuel Velikovsky’s
Worlds in Collision (1950)
’ The astronomers and the geologists whose concern is all this ..... should judge of the causes
which could effect the derangement of the day and could cover the earth with tenebrosity,’
wrote a clergyman who spent many years in Mexico and in the libraries of the Old World
which store ancient manuscripts of the Mayas and works of early Indian and Spanish authors
about them.
[Immanuel Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, 1950]
http://www.spirasolaris.ca/wic.pdf
6. In the manuscripts of Avila and Molina, who collected the traditions of the Indians of the New
World, it is related that the sun did not appear for five days, a cosmic collision of stars preceded the
cataclysm; people and animals tried to escape to mountain caves. ‘Scarcely had they reached there, when
the sea, breaking out of bounds following a terrifying shock, began the rise of the pacific coast. But as
the sea rose, filling the valleys and the plains around, the mountain of Ancasmarca rose too, like a ship
on the waves. During the five days that this cataclysm lasted, the sun did not show its face and the earth
remained in darkness.’