(http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/myth-folklore-unit-noah-and-ark.html)
The second part of this reading began in Paradise with Adam and Eve getting visited by Samael and his son, where Eve promises Samael that she will watch over the child. After the boy began to scream and cry following Samael leaving, Adam first killed him and then tried to cut him up into pieces and eat him in an attempt to stop the sound. God gives Adam a powerful book, known as the book of the angel Raziel, that becomes long-lost over time after only being found and then re-hidden by Enoch. This was until God gave this book to Noah prior to the flood as it contained instructions for the ark among many other things. The water for the flood then came, but in order to cleanse the Earth and punish them properly the water was heated incredibly before falling from the sky. Despite all of these harsh conditions, Noah's biggest problem was taking care of everyone/everything on the ark for a year as the animals became more and more restless over time. After forty days, the flood water ceased and began to go down little by little until a year passed, and Noah finally returned to land once God accepted his offering of animals. God gave Noah and his descendants permission to eat animal meat now as well as set up a vineyard from a vine that Adam brought from Paradise. Noah began to overindulge in his new vineyard and became drunk and passed out naked. He was dicsovered by his three sons and since his son Ham did not look away and cover his father, all of Ham's descendants were cursed by God. Following this Ham and one of the other sons, Japheth, left Noah and built a city of their own before all of the new world was divided up and given to the three sons: Ham being given the South, Japheth the North, and Shem between the two in the middle.
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| Noah and his three sons building the Ark prior to the Flood |
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