Deluge

Deluge can refer to:

  • A large downpour of rain
  • A flood
Mythical and prehistoric floods
  • Flood myth, mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
  • Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths
  • Genesis flood narrative
Polish and Lithuanian history and culture
  • Deluge (history), combined Swedish and Russians invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654-1667)
    • The Deluge (novel), Potop, a novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about it
      • The Deluge (film), based on the novel
Other
  • Before The Deluge (song), a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
  • Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough
  • The Deluge (album), a 1986 album by Manilla Road
  • Deluge (fine art photography), a museum exhibit by David LaChapelle
  • Deluge (fireboat), a boat used in firefighting
  • Deluge (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright
    • Deluge (film), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the novel
  • The Deluge (novella), a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne
  • The Deluge (novel), a 2007 novel by Mark Morris
  • Deluge (software), a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK+
  • Deluge (Transformers), several Transformers characters
  • Deluge fire suppression systems, systems that have all sprinklers connected to the water piping system open
  • Flame Deluge, a devastating nuclear war from Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Le Déluge, a 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns

Famous quotes containing the word deluge:

    We are better advised and more educated than any other generation of parents. Yet this deluge of literature and advice can also leave us feeling overwhelmed and inadequate. Where is the joy of bringing a child into the world if we are always afraid of making a mistake?
    Neil Kurshan (20th century)

    The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditional shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    We can’t afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
    Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)