7 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Noah sent the raven first. It circled the drowned world and would not finish the errand. He put out his hand when the dove came back empty.
A builder on a beam answers how the world was made, and the waters revolt, the trees grow proud, and God tears the deep apart with one finger.
A Samaritan mocked upper waters hung by a word. Rabbi Meir sealed a tube with his finger and asked how much more the finger of God could hold.
After Jerusalem falls, Baruch sees a cloud pour Adam's black waters and Abraham's bright ones. Ramiel names each flood until history itself becomes weather.
Fifteen cubits above the peaks, then a slow refund. Sixty days, one cubit every four. In Av the drowned world shows its mountains again.
The deep already filled the world when God told the waters to gather. They crowded into a smaller bed, and dry land pushed up its face.
God drove the seas down from beside the Throne. They clawed for the height they were leaving. The cry they made still holds the rivers in place.
