The same they relate of _Prometheus_, concerning whom, thus _Diodorus Siculus_: “They say that the _Nyle_ breaking through his Dams, and over-flowing his Banks, drown’d all _Egypt_, especially that part where _Prometheus_ Rul’d, where all the Inhabitants were swallow’d by the Deluge.” None can imagine but that _Diodorus_ by this makes mention of a particular Flood, and not the general one in _Noah_’s time; for as the _Greeks_ ascrib’d all things to their _Heroes_, so the _Egyptians_ in like manner did the same to _theirs_: Therefore they have of the general Flood, made a particular one in _Egypt_, though perhaps it never was: So that what is Fabled of _Prometheus_, is nothing but a Part of the Universal Deluge; which the Name _Prometheus_ proves, because it signifies, _Sprung from Heaven_, and is the same with _Noah_, whom they hold to be the first Father of all Mankind since the Flood, born of, or regenerated from his Wife _Asia_; and _Asia_ signifies _Earth_, or _The Mother of all things_; and so espousing _Noah_, being sprung from God, to _Ararat_, from whence descended the Generations of Mankind, and by degrees spread over the whole surface of the Earth. [Sidenote: _Acosta_, l. 1. c. 25.] [Sidenote: Strange Opinion of the _Americans_ concerning the Flood.] [Sidenote: Original of the _American_ Kings, and their Custom.] The _Chineses_, _East-Indians_, _Japanners_, and other People of _Asia_ and _Africa_, have also some knowledge of a very ancient Flood; but hood-wink’t under many idle Fancies, not unlike that which the _Americans_ relate, from whom several Learned Persons find no obscure Confessions of the Deluge, which thus mystically they have wrapp’d up, That one _Viracocha_ came out of the great Lake _Titicaca_, and setled his Residence upon _Tiaguanaco_, where yet remain the Ruines of ancient Walls, built after a wonderful manner: At length removing from _Tiaguanaco_ to _Cusco_, he began to multiply the Generation of Mankind. They shew in the foremention’d Lake a small Island, under which, the _Americans_ say, the Sun sav’d himself from the Flood; wherefore in ancient Times they superstitiously observ’d that place, heightning their Bloody Sacrifices with Humane Slaughter. Others relate, That six Persons leap’d through a Hole out of a Window, from whence all Men were since Extracted; and from that new Increase, the place (after the Inhabitants of the Old World were all drown’d) got the Denomination of _Pacari Tampo_; and therefore they hold the _Tampo_’s to be the most ancient Families: From hence _Mangocapam_ deriv’d, being the Primogenitor of the _Ynca_’s or Kings; from whom sprung two Generations, _Hanon Cuzco_, and _Urim Cuzco_. They tell us also, That their _Ynca_’s, when they make War upon any People, say that the occasion, as they pretend, was, because all Territories are Tributary to them justly, from whom they were deriv’d and restor’d, being the first Planters of the New World; and