(The Aymara are a tribe that reside near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.) Kun, the snow god (their principle deity), grew angry at the arrogant humans and punished them by covering all of creation with snow and ice (an ice flood). After this, when all had perished, the gods of fertility sent their sons, the Eagle Men, to create new people, who were called the Paka-Jakes, who still live near Lake Titicaca.

The gods, angered at humankind, decide to destroy them with a flood. The god Enki, disagreeing with this decision, instructs a worthy man named Ziusudra to build a great boat in which to save himself, his family, and a few other people, as well as all animals. This myth dates from about the third millenium B.C.E.

The Gilgamesh epic contains a similar story (see Sumerian Flood Myth above), and it seems likely that this myth is based upon the Sumerian one. In the Babylonian myth the story is essentially the same as the Sumerian, but the names have been changed. Ziusudra (the Sumerian) is now Utnapishtim and Enki (the Sumerian god) is now Ea. This Babylonian myth seems very definitely to be the source of the biblical flood featuring Noah.

The flood theme is one of the very oldest in Chinese mythology. A flood myth from the Chou Dynasty of about 1000 B.C.E. is on record. The main difference between the Chinese flood myth and that of Western cultures seems to be the emphasis on why there was a flood. In the Western myths the floods are brought about because of the anger of the gods, or at a whim of the gods, while in the Chinese myth the emphasis is on a very practical matter, the channeling of unruly waters in such a way as to make cultivation of the land possible. No sense of divine justice here.

The Popol-Vuh, the sacred book of the Maya, contains within its creation story a tale of the destruction of the first beings by a flood. This flood differs from others in that it is not a punishment, but rather a remedy for a faulty creation. The Feathered Serpent first created man from mud. These creatures were a failure; they couldn't see, they dissolved when it rained, etc. So the god broke them up and tried again. This time he made men out of wood. They were better than the mud-men. They could walk and talk; they had many children, built many houses, but they had no minds nor souls nor hearts. The Feathered Serpent was disappointed with what he had created, so he sent a great flood to cleanse the earth of his mistake. (The tale goes on to explain the creation of man.)