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After the deluge, Yima released the Karshipta, a bird which no longer exists,
with instructions to bring news of his whereabouts to others who happened to
survive. Ahura Mazda reappeared and asked him to become a religious reformer.
Yima refused, but promised to pass down the story of the Great Flood to “the
right man.” That happened to be Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism.
The Genesis account of the Flood was obviously indebted to the Persian story
of Yima.
(See Zend-Avesta)Ymir
In Norse myth, a cosmic colossus whose violent death at the hands of Odin, the
Sky-Father, unleashed a universal deluge, in which perished a race of giants, save
Bergelmir and his wife, who escaped in a ship. A variant of the story describes other
giants sailing safely away in the Naglfar, an enormous vessel captained by Hrim.
Ymir is possibly related to the Sanskrit Yama, an Indian god of the Underworld
and creator of all things. In any case, Ymir’s sudden death and subsequent flood caused
by violence descending from the sky refers to the celestial origins of the Atlantean
catastrophe, as similarly described in numerous folk traditions around the world.
(See Asteroid Theory)Ynys Avallach
“Land of the Apples of Eternal Life”—Atlantis in Welsh folk tradition.
(See Avalon, Ynys Vitrius, Ys)Ynys-vitrius
“Land of Glass or Crystal”—the British version of Atlantis.
(See Avalon, Tuoai Stone, Ynys Avallach, Ys)Yokut Creation Myth
The southern California Yokut tribe recounts that mankind was born on an
island in the middle of a primeval sea. Here, Eagle and Coyote fashioned the first
men and women. The Yokut myth is one of many in the circum-Pacific region
suggesting human origins in Lemuria.Yonaguni
A small island among the Ryukyus, the southernmost territories of Japan. In
1985, off Isseki Point, or “Monument Point,” scuba divers discovered an apparently