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[[File:AncientDeluge A 01 MJ.png|thumb|300px|The Great Flood is thought to have destroyed a legendary antediluvian civilization. The existence of this civilization remains a matter of debate among scholars. Midjourney.]]

Dated by Kalaman Chronologers to 11,773 years before [[Saint Salmakhamer|Salmakhamer]], the Great Flood or Flood of [[Aturyanda]] engulfed the coastal regions of the globe and is attested by similar legends in [[Sungo|Sungotine]] and New World cultures.  [[Magdeology|Magdeologers]] believe that Sea Level was about two [[gnödva]] (30 meters / 100 feet) lower prior to the ancient Flood of Aturyanda.

[[Magdeology|Magdeologers]] believe the waters of the Great Flood caused the former basins of the [[Memnosian Sea]], the [[Titans Sea]], the [[West Turtle Sea]], and the [[Keolamattu Sea]], and their associated inland seas to become deluged and thus incorporated into the worldwide ocean.

=Legendary Origin=
Kalaman legend ascribes the Great Flood to the final war between dragons and the gods in which the gods defeated the dragons, but the [[Jahambuttha]] was destroyed that caused water to fall from heaven for many days.  The Flood is named after Aturyanda, the mythical antediluvian king of Kathyasundi who was a pivotal character of the [[Aturyandakumi]]. Scholars prefer the name Flood of Aturyanda to Great Flood as there have been many catastrophic floods since the times of the Dragon Ice.

=High Shadevan Valley Drainage Theory=
Some naturalists who study the [[Shadew River]] attribute the Canyon of the Shadew in Shaddago to the great waters that flowed through the river into the sea as a result of the Flood of Aturyanda.  These naturalists believe a great inland sea covered the [[High Shadevan Plateau|High Shadevan Plains]] but due to earth shifts from the destruction of the [[Jahambuttha]], the resting place of this body of water was moved and it drained precipitously to the sea.  Others posit that this catastrophic drainage took place more recently in the [[Flood of Karuthaya]].

The lands that are now the [[Shadevan Delta]] were flooded and unlike the [[Jaggudorn Mountains|Jaggudorns]] to the north, began a process of slow subsidence combined with the erosion caused by the new course of the [[Shadew River]].

=See Also=
*[[Antediluvian]]
*[[Aturyanda]]
*[[Aturyandakumi]]
*[[Flood of Karuthaya]]
*[[Great Flood Survivor Cultures]]
*[[Jahambuttha]]

[[Category:World Flood]]
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