Week 5 Story Telling: The Og's Flood

The Og's Flood

The Og looked on at the ark, wondering what he had done to deserve to not be allowed on the boat with everyone else. He saw the giraffes, elephants, dogs, cats, snakes, and every other creature on the earth. They were all dry and seemed to be happy, which irritated him greatly. He had tried to get on the boat, had tried to live with the rest of them, but he had not been allowed in. Noah, however, had had other plans. He insisted that the Og had to stay out in the waters, claiming that he was too big to fit in the ark. He didn't know who gave Noah the right to make decisions like this, but he didn't like it. He vowed to spend the rest of the 40 days and nights of the flood making his life and everyone else's on the boat miserable.

A representation of the flood waters that the Og endured

while everyone was on the ark. Source: Wikimedia Commons

As soon as the flood began and the waters started to rise, the Og knew what he had to do. He was determined to step on the ark and crush it and everyone inside. He thought this plan was an indestructible one. After all, he was the largest being on earth and he had more power than anyone. However, once the floods began and the waters got even stronger, he realized that his strategies weren't completely fool proof. Every time that he lifted his powerful hoof to strike the boat, the waves caught him off guard and made it impossible for him to accurately hit the ark. He didn't let this sway him just yet. He had 40 days, after all. He pressed on for each of those days and vowed to hit his mark.
Despite the Og's greatest efforts, when the waters began to recede, he saw that the ark was still thriving and that everyone on board was perfectly fine. He was overcome with jealousy once again. Noticing that the waters were much lower now, the Og took off into the distance and vowed to come up with a better plan. He was going to get revenge for how miserable he had been the past days, he just had to figure out how.

Author's Note

I modeled this after the Noah story from the Folklore of the Holy Land collection. It's original form just briefly mentioned the Og and the fact that he wanted to destroy the ark and everyone in this, but it didn't really give a reason for why he felt that way. With that in mind, I wanted to give the Og a voice so I decided to make a more developed creature that was jealous because of his size. However, even with the reason given, he still wasn't able to destroy the ark but he leaves at the end, determined to get revenge somehow.