Antediluvian - Other Uses

Other Uses

• The adjective antediluvian is sometimes used figuratively to refer to anything that is of great age and/or outmoded. H. P. Lovecraft was particularly fond of the term, using it frequently in his horror stories.

• In Charles Stross's Saturn's Children the religious order who believe in evolution refer to the antediluvian period as the time in which man lived alongside Tyrannosaurs.

• Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a 1882 book by Ignatius L. Donnelly that attempted to establish that all known ancient civilizations were descended from Atlantis. Many theories mentioned in the book are the source of modern-day concepts about Atlantis.

• In the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade the Antediluvians are the early vampires that lived in the pre-flood world and the supposed progenitors of the original clans.