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The original concept of "ocean" goes back to notions of Mesopotamian and Indo-European mythology, imagining the world to be encircled by a great river. Okeanos, "Ωκεανός" in Greek, reflects the ancient Greek observation that a strong current flowed off Gibraltar and their subsequent assumption that it was a great river. (Compare also Samudra from Hindu mythology and Jörmungandr from Norse mythology.) The world was imagined to be enclosed by a celestial ocean above the heavens, and an ocean of the underworld below (compare Rasā, Varuna).
This is evidenced for example in the account of Noah's flood in Genesis 7:11, where : all the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened (KJV) http://www.answers.com/topic/authorized-king-james-version%29, inundating the world with the waters of the celestial ocean (see also deluge) http://www.answers.com/topic/deluge-mythology%29.
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