Interestingly the Chinese symbol for "boat" or 船 is made of 舟 (which means vessel), 八 (meaning eight) and 口(meaning mouth); 船 literally translate "eight people in the boat". This character was used in the ancient Chinese story of Noah's ark. Many other non-christian countries have similar story line of Noah's ark in the Genesis' account of the Bible. Indians, Sumerians, Egyptians, American Indians and the Peruvians wrote historical account about a universal flood.