A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a

flood A flood is an overflow of water ( or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrol ...

The Deluge The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is the Hebrew version of the universal flood myth. It tells of God's decision to return the universe to its pre- creation state of watery chaos and remake it through the microc ...

refers to the flood narrative in the Biblical book of Genesis. Deluge may also refer to:

History

Deluge (history) The Deluge ( pl, potop szwedzki, lt, švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce ...

, the Swedish and Russian invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654–1667) *

Deluge (prehistoric) In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity of water. During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods were ca ...

, prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths *

Après moi, le déluge "" (; ) is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "" (; ) to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone, thou ...

(lit. 'After me, the flood'), a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France in 1757

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Deluge'' (film), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the S. Fowler Wright novel * ''The Deluge'' (film), a 1974 Polish film based on the Sienkiewicz novel

Literature

* ''Deluge'' (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright *''Deluge'', a 2008 novel by

Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-Irish writer known for the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, ''Weyr Search'', 19 ...

and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough * ''Le Déluge'' (Le Clézio), a fictional work by J. M. G. Le Clézio. * ''The Deluge'' (Tooze book), a 2014 book by Adam Tooze * ''The Deluge'' (novel), ''Potop'', an 1886 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about the historical event *''The Deluge'', a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne *''The Deluge'', a 2007 novel by Mark Morris

Music

*''Deluge'', a 1997 album by

Jocelyn Pook Jocelyn Pook (, rhyming with "book"; born 14 February 1960) is an English composer and viola player. She is known for her scores for many films, including ''Eyes Wide Shut'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and '' The Wife''. Education Pook gradua ...

* ''Le Déluge'' (Saint-Saëns), an 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns * ''The Deluge'' (album), a 1986 album by Manilla Road

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Deluge (fine art photography), a museum exhibit by David LaChapelle * Deluge (Transformers), several Transformers characters *''The Deluge'', a painting by

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899–7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa a ...

Firefighting

* ''Deluge'' (fireboat), several vessels *A type of

fire sprinkler system A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected. Although historically on ...

Deluge gun A deluge gun, fire monitor, master stream or deck gun is an aimable controllable high-capacity water jet used for manual firefighting or automatic fire protection systems. Deluge guns are often designed to accommodate foam which has been inject ...

, equipment used in firefighting

Other uses

Deluge (software) Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python. Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software library written in C++ which provides the application's networki ...

, a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK * Deluge Fountain, in Bydgoszcz, Poland *

Deluge Mountain Deluge Mountain is a mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada. Description Deluge Mountain is a 2,789-meter-elevation (9,150-foot) peak situated 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) northwest of The Bugaboos, in the Purcell Mountains which are a ...

, a summit in Canada