A strange book of poetry published in 1889 by American Charles Phifer called Annals of the Earth p. 286, in its voluminous appendix of mythographic notes, has the following statement, albeit without clear attributation: "Persian Magi hold that the first waters of the flood gushed out of the oven of an old woman named Zola Cufa." Water gushing forth from an oven (tannur) at the commencement of the Deluge, as mentioned in the Quran (11:40), is also held to be the signal for Noah in the 14th-century Stories of the Prophets by Ibn Kathir.
Bernstein, Moshe J. (2005). "From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon". Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran. pp. 39–63. doi:10.1163/9789047416142_004. ISBN978-90-474-1614-2. S2CID193373500.
Bernstein, Moshe J. (2005). "From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon". Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran. pp. 39–63. doi:10.1163/9789047416142_004. ISBN978-90-474-1614-2. S2CID193373500.