Fascinating stuff.
Here's the some of the flood myths mentioned by ChatGPT:
Mesopotamian Flood Myth (Epic of Gilgamesh): One of the earliest known flood stories, where the gods send a flood to destroy humanity, but the hero Utnapishtim builds a boat to save his family and animals.Biblical Flood (Noah’s Ark): In the Judeo-Christian tradition, God floods the earth to purge it of wickedness, sparing Noah, his family, and pairs of each animal species.
Hindu Flood Myth (Manu): In Hindu tradition, Manu is warned of a great flood by a fish (who is an avatar of the god Vishnu), and he builds a boat to save himself and the sacred scriptures.
Chinese Flood Myth (Yu the Great): Chinese legend tells of a great flood controlled by the hero Yu, who created channels to divert the water.
Lately, there is a flood of megalithic archeological videos calling the subject a “preFlood” megalithic structure
“Also weird along those lines is how there is an ancient flood narrative in cultures around the world.”
Yes, and even the Native Americans, who knew nothing of the old world:
https://mythologyworldwide.com/the-legend-of-the-great-flood-in-native-american-mythology/
It all boils down to this... They are ALL correct but the ideology is not unique to each as their own, there was indeed a great flood and each has it’s own tradition to try explain why and how it happened.