According to the Jaredite chronological theory of Warren and Palmer, there is a link between New World and Old World accounts of a great flood. The KJV translation of the Holy Bible was based on the Jewish Masoretic text produced around A.D. 100. The apostles of Jesus actually used a different version, the Greek Septuagint. It appears to be chronologically more accurate than the Jewish version. . . . The Greek Septuagint account places the Flood of Noah's time at roughly 3100 B.C.
Histories of the Mesopotamian kings are fairly specific in time sequence and describe a great flood consistent with the chronology from the Septuagint. There is archaeological evidence for a flood at the ancient cities of Kish, Shuruppak, Uruk, and Lagash (Parrot, 1955:55). Those cities are in the very area where Noah has been placed by biblical scholars. This area was later called "Sumer." This kingdom of the Sumerians lasted from the Flood, in perhaps 3114 B.C., down to about 1750 B.C
The natives of Mesoamerica also had traditions concerning the destruction of the world by a flood. An excellent study of the Maya Codex Dresden, plus geological information, has given Nancy K. Owen a better understanding of this flood and its dating. According to her report: "Thompson believes that (page 74 of the Maya codex Dresden) represents destruction of the world by flood. According to him 'the painting depicts floods of water pouring earthward from the open mouth of a celestial dragon with subsidiary streams flowing from sun and moon cartouches suspended from the underside of the creature's body'" (1972:88-9).
The Maya used a "Long Count" calendar which kept track of every day from a specific base date. Many people have tried to correlate just what day that base date would have been. Perhaps the primary correlation was accomplished by Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT), and was apparently confirmed by the use of calibrated radiocarbon dating. They came up with a base date of 3114 B.C. (Gregorian calendar system). It seems likely that this base date refers to the time of the great destruction of the world by water. [Bruce W. Warren and David A. Palmer, The Jaredite Saga, ch. 2-3, unpublished]
Ether 1:3 The first part of this record, which speaks concerning the creation of the world . . . even to the great tower (Illustration): The Maya Codex Flood Scene] [Bruce W. Warren and David A. Palmer, The Jaredite Saga, ch. 2-3, unpublished]