What is a central idea in "Flood Myths from Around the World"? A. Ancient societies have commonly used the story of a goddess becoming ill and failing to control the river as a way to understand the natural phenomenon of flooding that they struggled to control.

B. Ancient societies have used flood myths involving an angry deity sending a flood to punish humanity as a way to cope with the natural disaster.

C. Ancient civilizations typically have used flood myths involving scheming gods and their human accomplices in order to place blame for natural disasters.

D. Ancient cultures usually invoke the failures of impotent gods in flood myths to give them a way of dealing with devastating floods.