Mythes
D'Inondation
| Sumerian
| Babylonian | Hebrew | Australian
| Chaldean | Zoroastrian | Hindu
| Greco-Roman |
| Jicarilla | Mayan | Aztec
| Squamish | Skagit | Mandingo
| "People of Mount Jefferson" |
| Yakima | Cado | Chippewa
| Navaho | Hopi | Pima
| Andaman | Huarochiri |
| Miao/Yao | Hawaiian | Batak
| Scandinavian | Celtic | Yoruba
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| Kabadi | Gunwinggu | Wiranggu
| Palau Isles | Tahitian |
| Samoan | Quillayute | Nizqualli
| Kamu | Shasta |
| Cheyenne | Lakota | Tsetsaut
| Papago |
| Toltec | Huichol | Malorotare
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| Yanomamo | Yamana |
| Yuma |
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MAISON
Dans la onzième tablette de l'épopée
babylonienne de Semitic de Gilagamesh est une histoire d'inondation qui est la
source pour l'histoire de Noah. Les dieux ont résolu pour nettoyer la terre
d'une humanité surpeuplée, mais Utnapishtim a été averti par Dieu ea dans un
rêve. Lui et quelques artisans ont construit (sept paquets entourant une acre
dans la zone) une arche énorme. Utnapishtim l'a alors chargée avec sa famille,
les artisans, et " la graine de toutes les créatures vivantes. " Les
eaux se sont levées vers le haut, et un orage a continué pour six jours et six
nuits. Les dieux repented et ont pleuré en voyant la destruction globale des êtres
vivants et ont calmé l'inondation le septième jour. Les eaux ont couvert tout
mais le dessus de la montagne Nisur, où le bateau a débarqué. Une colombe a
été desserrée, mais elle est retournée, après n'avoir trouvé aucun endroit
pour se reposer. Une hirondelle a été envoyée, mais elle est aussi retournée.
Sept jours plus tard, ensuite après avoir desserré a raven qui n'est pas
revenu à l'arche, le peuple a commencé à émerger. Utnapishtim a fait un
sacrifice aux dieux. Lui et son épouse ont été donnés l'immortalité et vécus
à l'extrémité de la terre.
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Trois fois (tous les 1200 ans), les dieux
sont devenus affligés par la perturbation du surpeuplement humain. Les dieux
ont traité le problème d'abord par peste, puis par la famine. Les deux fois,
Dieu Enki a informé des humains suborner Dieu posant le problème. La troisième
fois que, Enlil a informé les dieux pour détruire tous les humains avec une
inondation, mais Enki a eu la construction d'Atrahasis une arche et ainsi évasion.
Également sur le bateau étaient les bétail, les animaux et les oiseaux
sauvages, et la famille d'Atrahasis. Après avoir vu la douleur provoquée par
l'inondation, les dieux ont regretté leur action, et Enki a établi les femmes
et la mortinaissance stériles pour éviter le problème à l'avenir.
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Basé sur l'histoire babylonienne avec la
différence que l'inondation était une punition dure pour le sinfulness de
l'humanité. Noah avait 600 ans quand elle a commencé à pleuvoir pour ce qui a
terminé vers le haut d'être de 40 jours et 40 nuits. Après la fin de 150
jours, les eaux ont été diminuées. L'arche s'est reposée en le septième
mois sur les montagnes d'Ararat. Les eaux ont diminué jusqu' au 10ème mois, le
premier jour du 10ème mois; des dessus des montagnes ont été également vus.
À la fin de 40 jours, Noah a ouvert les Windows de l'arche. D'abord, il a envoyé
a raven, qui est allé en avant et en arrière. Il a alors envoyé une colombe,
qui a renvoyé et n'avait pas trouvé la terre. Après sept jours supplémentaires,
une autre colombe a été desserrée; elle a renvoyé cette soirée avec une
feuille olive. La semaine suivante, la colombe n'est pas retournée. Après
qu'une année et 10 jours dès le début de l'inondation, chaque créature ait
émergé de l'arche. Noah a sacrifié quelques animaux et oiseaux propres à
Dieu, et à Dieu, heureux avec ceci, promis jamais encore pour détruire toutes
les créatures vivantes.
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Pendant l'inondation de Dreamtime, le
woramba, l'arche Gumana portant Noah, les aborigènes, et les animaux, dérivés
au sud et sont venus pour se reposer dans la plaine d'inondation de Djilinbadu
(environ 70 kilomètres de sud de station de Noonkanbah, sud juste de la chaîne
de Barbwire et à l'est de la chaîne de Worral), où il peut encore voir
aujourd'hui. La réclamation de l'homme blanc qu'il a débarquée dans le Moyen-Orient
était un mensonge pour maintenir des aborigènes dans le subservience.
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Xisuthrus a été averti d'une prochaine
inondation par Dieu Chronos, qui a commandé Xisuthrus pour écrire une histoire
et pour construire un navire (stadia 5 par stadia 2) pour ses relations, amis,
et deux de chaque type d'animal. Après que l'inondation ait commencé à
s'abaisser, il envoie quelques oiseaux, qui sont retournés. Lors de l'essai
encore, les oiseaux sont retournés, leurs pieds couverts dans la boue. Sur la
troisième épreuve, les oiseaux ne sont pas retournés. Le peuple a débarqué
et a offert des sacrifices aux dieux. Xisuthrus, son épouse, fille, et le
pilote de l'arche ont été par la suite transportés pour vivre avec les dieux.
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Ahura Mazda a averti Yima que la
destruction sous forme d'inondations, ultérieures à la fonte de la neige, menaçait
le monde sinful et lui a donné des instructions pour construire un vara dans
lequel des spécimens de petits et grands bétail, humains, chiens, oiseaux,
feux, plantes et nourritures devaient être déposés dans les paires.
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Manu, le premier humain, sauvegardé un
petit poisson des mâchoires d'un plus grand poisson. Après qu'entendant le
plus petit priez pour la protection, Manu a gardé le coffre-fort de poissons,
en le transférant dans de plus grands et plus grands récipients comme il a crû,
le renvoyant finalement à l'océan.
En raison de cette bonté, les poissons sont
retournés pour avertir Manu au sujet d'une inondation imminente et lui ont
indiqué pour construire un bateau, la stockant avec des échantillons de chaque
espèce. Après les eaux d'inondation roses, Manu a attaché une corde au klaxon
du poisson. Les poissons l'ont mené à une montagne et ont indiqué Manu
attacher la corde du bateau à un arbre de sorte qu'il ne dérive pas. Il est
resté sur la montagne (connue sous le nom de descente de Manu) tandis que
l'inondation balayait loin toutes les créatures vivantes. Seul Manu a survécu.
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Zeus a décidé de punir l'humanité pour
ses voies mauvaises. D'autres dieux se sont affligés à la destruction parce
qu'il n'y aurait aucun être pour les adorer. Zeus a promis de nouvelles
provisions, une unité de feuillets magnétiques d'origine miraculeuse. Il
allait utiliser des coups de foudre quand il s'est rappelé un des décrets du
destin: qu'un moment viendrait quand la mer et la terre et le dôme du ciel
flamberaient vers le haut, et la structure massive de l'univers s'effondrerait
dans les ruines. Avec l'aide de Poseidon, il a fait inonder l'orage et le
tremblement de terre chaque partie de la terre excepté le sommet du support
Parnassus. Quand Zeus a écrasé les nuages s'arrêtants dans sa main, il y
avait une panne totale forte, et les feuilles de pluie sont tombées du ciel.
Les fleuves ont commencé à se précipiter à la mer. Quand Neptune a frappé
la terre avec son trident, les fleuves ont emballé à travers les plaines. La
mer et la terre ont pu plus être distinguées; tout était mer sans aucun
rivage, couvrant chaque être vivant excepté un couple chanceux, Deucalion et
Pyrrha. Plus tôt, Deucalion et Pyrrha avaient consulté Themis à son shrine
oracular. Elle a averti d'une future inondation, et ils ont préparé en
saisissant un bateau. À temps, leur bateau a échoué sur le sommet du support
Parnassus. (note: C'est la montagne à Delphes, " nombril de la terre
" et de la maison du grand oracle.)
Identifiant leur piety, Zeus leur a permis de
vivre et a retiré les eaux. C'était alors que Deucalion et Pyrrha se sont
rappelés l'autre oracle donné par Themis: au repopulate le monde en jetant
" derrière vous les os de votre grande mère. " Pyrrha n'a pas voulu
blesser l'ordinateur de secours de sa mère en dérangeant ses os. Prometheus
l'a calmée des craintes. " Les oracles sont righteous et n'informent
jamais l'action coupable... qu'" ils ont décidé que " les os "
étaient des pierres dans le corps de la terre (" grande mère "). Ils
ont jeté les pierres, qui sont allées bien à des humains; hommes des pierres
jetées par Deucalion; femmes, des ces fonte par Pyrrha. Des animaux ont été
produits par la terre de sa propre volonté. Selon Platon: " Beaucoup de
grands déluges ont eu lieu pendant les neuf mille années. "
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Avant que les apaches aient émergé des
enfers, il y avait d'autres sur la terre. Dios a dit un vieil homme et une
vieille femme qu'il pleuvrait quarante jours et nuits. Les gens ont été
avertis d'aller aux dessus de quatre montagnes (Tsisnatcin, Tsabidzilhi,
Becdilhgai, et des autres dont l'identité n'est pas connue) et de ne pas
regarder l'inondation ou le ciel. Le peuple n'a pas cru les vieux couples. Quand
les pluies sont venues, seulement peu de gens l'ont faite jusqu aux dessus de
montagne et ont fermé leurs yeux. Ceux qui ont regardé l'inondation se sont
transformés en poissons ou grenouilles; s' ils regardaient le ciel, ils se sont
transformés en oiseaux. Après quatre-vingts jours, Dios a dit les 24 personnes
restantes d'ouvrir leurs yeux et de descendre. Ces 24 personnes sont entrées
dans des montagnes. Huit autres personnes ont survécu l'inondation qui
pouvaient voyager en semblant où elles ont voulu aller, et elles étaient là.
Ces personnes ont dit les apaches au sujet de l'inondation avant l'entrée dans
deux montagnes elles-mêmes. Autour du tour du millénium, la surface de la
terre sera encore détruite , this time by fire.
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God sent the flood because the people made
from wood (an early version of humans) had no souls, minds or hearts and had
forgotten how they were made. They wanted to escape, but the animals that they
had starved and beaten, the pots they had burnt, and the trees they'd stripped
refused to help them. Only a few escaped the flood, and it is said that their
descendants are monkeys.
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In the Valley of Mexico there lived a
pious man named Tapi. Creator told him to build a boat to live in, to take his
wife and a pair of every animal that existed. Neighbors thought he was crazy. As
soon as he finished, it began to rain. The valley flooded; men and animals went
to mountains, but they were submerged. The rain ended, waters receded, etc. Tapi
realized that the flood waters had receded after having sent a dove that did not
return. Tapi rejoiced.
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When the Squamish saw the great flood
coming, they made a giant canoe and a long rope of cedar fibers with which they
fastened the canoe to a giant rock. Into the canoe, they put every baby, a young
man and woman to be their guardians, and food and water. The waters rose and
drowned everyone else. After several days, the man saw Mount Baker in the
distance. He cut the rope and paddled south to it, and made a new home there.
The outline of the canoe can still be seen halfway up the slope of Mount Baker.
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The Creator made the earth and gave four
names for it -- for the sun, waters, soil and forests. He said only a few
people, with special preparation for the knowledge, should know all four names,
or the world would change too suddenly. After a while, everyone learned the four
names. When people started talking to the trees the change came in the form of a
flood. When the people saw the flood coming, they made a giant canoe and filled
it with five people and a male and female of all plants and animals. Water
covered everything but the summit of Kobah and Takobah (Mts. Baker and Ranier).
The canoe landed on the prairie. Doquebuth, the new Creator, was born of a
couple from the canoe. He delayed getting his spirit powers, but finally did so
after his family deserted him. At the direction of the Old Creator, he made
people again from the soil and from the bones of the people who lived before the
flood.
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A charitable man gave away everything he
had. The God Ouende rewarded him with riches, advised him to leave the area, and
sent six months of rain to destroy his selfish neighbors. The descendants of the
rich man became the present human race.
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Twice, a great flood came. Afraid that
another might come, the people made a giant canoe from a big cedar. When they
saw a third flood coming, they put the bravest young men and young women in the
canoe, with plenty of food. Then the flood, bigger and deeper than the earlier
ones, swallowed the land. It rained for many days and nights, but when the
clouds finally parted for the third time, the people saw land (Mount Jefferson)
and landed on it. When the water receded, they made their home at the base of
the mountain. The canoe was turned to stone and can be seen on Mount Jefferson
today.
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In early times, many people had gone to
war with other tribes, but there were still some good people. One of the good
men heard from the Land Above that a big water was coming. He told the other
good people and decided they would make a dugout boat from the largest cedar
they could find. Soon after the canoe was finished, the flood came, filling the
valleys and covering the mountains. The bad people were drowned; the good people
were saved in the boat. We don't know how long the flood stayed. The canoe can
still be seen where it came down on Toppenish Ridge. The earth will be destroyed
by another flood if people do wrong a second time.
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Four monsters grew large and powerful
until they were high enough to touch the sky. One man heard a voice telling him
to plant a hollow reed. He did so, and it quickly grew very big. He, his wife,
and pairs of all good animals entered the reed. Waters rose to cover everything
but the top of the reed and the heads of the monsters. Turtle destroyed the
monsters by digging under them and uprooting them. The waters subsided, and
winds dried the earth.
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While the medicine man Wis-kay-tchach was
hunting, his young wolf was killed by some water lynxes. Wis tried to kill one
of the lynxes to get revenge. First, he turned himself into a stump at the edge
of a lake. Frogs and snakes tried to pull the stump down, but Wis kept himself
upright. The lynx, suspicions lulled, went to sleep. Wis returned to normal
shape and, though warned to shoot the lynx's shadow, forgot and shot its body.
He shot a second arrow at the shadow, but the lynx escaped into a river, which
then overflowed and flooded the whole country. Wis escaped in a canoe.
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For their sins, the Gods expelled the
Insect People from the first world by sending a wall of water from all
directions. The Insect People flew up into the second world. Later, in the
fourth world, descendants of these people were likewise punished. They escaped
the floodwaters by climbing into a fast-growing reed. Cicada dug an entrance
into the fifth world, where people live today.
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The people repeatedly became distant from
Sotuknang, the creator. Twice he destroyed the world (by fire and by cold) and
recreated it while the few people who still lived by the laws of creation took
shelter underground with the ants. When people became corrupt and warlike a
third time, Sotuknang guided them to Spider Woman, who cut down giant reeds and
sheltered the people in the hollow stems. Sotuknang caused a great flood, and
the people floated in their reeds for a long time. They emerged after coming to
rest on a small piece of land. They still had as much food as they started with.
Guided by their inner wisdom (which comes from Sotuknang through the door at the
top of their head), the people traveled on, using the reeds as canoes. They went
northeast, finding progressively larger islands, until they came to the Fourth
World. When they reached it, they saw the islands sink into the ocean.
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As people grew in numbers, they became
selfish and greedy. As the situation on Earth became worse, the Earth Maker
decided to drown all evil ones from the face of the Earth, but not without
warning. He asked all to listen to the voice of the north wind as it called to
them to be honest and live in peace. Few listened to the north wind. The next
night another warning echoed from a distant thunderstorm to the east. When the
prophet Suhu spoke, he was called a fool, and the people continued to ignore the
warning of the wind. On the third night, the wind came from the west. They were
cautioned again to listen to the voice of the prophet Suhu. On the fourth night,
the wind came from the south, and only Suhu heard its mournful cry. "Suhu,
" said Earth Maker, "Take your people who are good to the summit of
Kakatak Tamai, for all the land will soon be covered with water, and all the
evil will perish. " The prophet Suhu gathered the good from all corners of
the land and led them to the top of Crooked Top Mountain. Then the roar of
thunder and lightning enveloped the land. From the east the rains came, and for
two moons it fell. All of the land except Crooked Top Mountain was covered with
water. The Earth Maker spoke once again from the thunder clouds atop Kakatak
Tamai. "All good people will return to the desert valley to till the
fertile soil, and all evil ones will be turned to stone, " he said. And so
it was. The stone people are clearly visible in the mountains, giant rock
structures imploring the Gods for release from their fate. And the white stratum
line which appears near the top is the high water mark from the flood.
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The Andaman Islanders talk of their
Supreme Being, Puluga, who lives in the sky. It was Puluga who created the world
and man. However, when man began to forget his creator, Puluga became annoyed
and sent a flood which covered the whole earth and wiped out the race. Four
people escaped and so Puluga had mercy on them.
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In the Huarochiri area of Peru, the
Quechua-speaking people have a myth of a deluge caused by a God whose presence
was not recognized by the people. He sent a flood which wiped all of the
villages away except for one woman who had befriended the God and was given
instructions to take refuge on a high mountain.
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The Miao and Yao people of the Guizhou
province of South China relate the story of Fu Xi and his sister Nu Gua (meaning
melon). They befriended the Thunder God who gave them a gourd seed. As the
deluge began, the two survived inside the gourd, the only two survivors. They
later married and bore a ball of flesh which they sliced into several pieces.
The wind carried the pieces all over the globe to reestablish humanity
everywhere.
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A Hawaiian legend tells of a flood (Kaiakahinalii)
in which all beings were killed except for Nuu and his family who repopulated
the earth when the ark landed on top of Mauna Kea.
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Naga-Padoha, the giant snake on which the
earth rests, grew tired of its burden and shook it off into the sea. But the God
Batara-Guru caused a mountain to fall into the water to preserve his daughter.
From her, the human race is descended. Later, the earth was replaced onto the
head of the snake.
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Oden, Vili, and Ve fought and slew the
great ice giant Ymir, and icy water from his wounds drowned most of the Rime
Giants. The giant Bergelmir escaped, with his wife and children, on a boat.
Ymir's body became the world we live on.
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Heaven and Earth were great giants, and
Heaven lay upon the Earth so that their children were crowded in the darkness
between them. One of their sons led his brothers in cutting up Heaven into many
pieces. From his skull they made the firmament. His spilling blood caused a
great flood which killed all humans except a single pair, who were saved in a
ship made by a beneficent Titan. The waters settled in hollows to become the
oceans.
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A God, Ifa, tired of living on earth and
went to dwell in the firmament. Without his assistance, mankind couldn't
interpret the desires of the Gods, and one God, in a fit of rage, destroyed
nearly everybody in a great flood.
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Lohero and his brother were angry with
their neighbors, so they put a human bone into a small stream. Soon a great
flood came forth, and the people had to retreat to the highest peaks until the
sea receded. Some people descended, and others made their homes on the ridges.
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The woman Gulbin killed a snake, began
cooking it, and slept while it cooked. But the snake was the daughter of She Who
Lives Underground. That snake made water rise, drowned the woman, and at last
came up and ate her. Later the Snake vomited her bones, which became like rock.
The first people were living in what is now the middle of the sea. In panic, the
people swam around trying to get to dry land. There was no place they could go
except for the rock Aragaladi, but Aragaladi was not a real rock; Snake had made
it rise up for them. A man came from the mainland in a canoe, but he drowned in
the middle of the sea. Snake came and swallowed the people and later vomited
their bones. She made the place deep with sea water. Those first people became
rocks. Nobody goes to Aragaladi now.
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Djunban was hunting kangaroo rat with his
magic boomerang, but he hit his "sister " Mandjia instead and wounded
her leg. Some time later he taught his people how to make rain. The next day
Mandjia died from her injury. Djunban performed the rain-making ceremony again,
but he was grieving his sister and not concentrating on his task, and the rain
came too heavily. He tried to warn his people, but the flood came and washed
away all the people and their possessions.
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Before humans, one of the Kaliths
(deities) visited an unfriendly village and was killed by its inhabitants. His
friends, searching for him, were met with unkindness except from the woman
Milathk, who told them of the death. They resolved vengeance by flooding the
village, and suggested Milathk save herself on a raft. Milathk perished in the
flood, but was recalled to life and became the mother of mankind.
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A sea God, angered because a fisherman had
lowered hooks which got entangled in his hair, caused a flood which covered all
but the tops of the mountains.
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In a battle between Fire and Water
(offspring of the primeval octopus), everything was overwhelmed by a
"boundless sea, " and the God Tangaloa had the task of re-creating the
world.
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Thunderbird was once so angry that he sent
the ocean over the land. When it reached the village of the Quillayute, they got
into their canoes. The water rose for four days, covering the mountains. The
boats were scattered by the wind and waves. Then the water receded for four
days, and people settled in many areas.
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The people became so numerous that they
ate all the fish and game and started to eat each other. They were so wicked
that Dokibatl, the Changer, flooded the earth. All living things were destroyed
except one woman and one dog, which survived atop Tacobud (Mt. Ranier). From
them the next race of people were born. They lived like animals until the
Changer sent a Spirit to teach them civilization.
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A brother and sister, warned of the
upcoming flood by a mouse, sealed themselves inside a drum, and emerged again
after the flood receded. They looked far and wide for mates, but they were the
only survivors. A malcoha cuckoo sang to them, "Brother and sister should
embrace one another. " They slept together. After seven years, the child
was born as a gourd. A little later, hearing noises from the gourd, they burnt a
hole in its shell, and people of the different races came out, first Rumeet,
then Kammu, Thai, Westerner, and Chinese.
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Coyote encountered an evil water spirit
who caused water to rise until it covered Coyote. After the water receded,
Coyote shot the water spirit with a bow and ran away, but the water followed
him. He ran to the top of Mount Shasta; the water followed but didn't quite
reach the top. Coyote made a fire, and all the other animal people swam to it
and found refuge there. After the water receded, they came down and found new
homes.
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One particularly hard winter had
"great floods " in addition to earthquakes and volcanoes. The people
spent the long winter in caves.
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Unktehi, a water monster, fought the
people and caused a great flood. The people retreated to a hill, but the water
swept over them, killing them all.
Unktehi was turned to stone; her bones are in
the Badlands now. A giant eagle, Wanblee Galeshka, swept down, saved one girl
from the flood, and made her his wife. (In another version, the thunderbirds
fought and defeated Unktehi and her children before the waters washed over the
highest mountain.)
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A man and his wife went up the hills to
hunt marmots. There, they saw that the water was still rising. They enclosed
their children, along with supplies, in hollow trees. All other people drowned.
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Komashtam'ho caused a great rain and
started to flood out the large dangerous animals, but he was persuaded that
people needed some of the animals for food. He evaporated the waters with a
great fire, turning the land to desert in the process.
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Coyote and Montezuma survived, in their
separate crafts, a flood which covered all the land. They met again on the top
of Monte Rosa, which rose above the flood waters.
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One of the Tezcatlipocas (sons of the
original dual God) transformed himself into the Sun and created the first humans
to show up his brothers. The other Gods, angry at his audacity, had Quetzalcoatl
destroy the people, which he did with a flood. The people became fish.
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A man clearing fields found the trees
regrown overnight. He found that his grandmother Nakawe did this, and she told
him that he was working in vain because a flood was coming. Per her
instructions, he built a box and survived the flood with corn, beans, fire, and
a black bitch. After the flood, he would return home from work to find meals
prepared. He spied one day and found that the bitch took off her skin and became
a woman to do the work. He threw her skin into the fire and bathed her in
nixtamal water. They repopulated the earth.
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The Star people listened to Jaguar and
killed and ate a woman. Kuamachi wanted to punish them, but they were too many
and too powerful. He invited them to help in picking dewaka fruit. They came,
and while they were eating fruit, Kuamachi dropped one fruit. Water came out of
it, spread, and caused a flood. Kuamachi and his grandfather stayed in a canoe;
they got bows and arrows and shot the people who were helpless in the trees. The
people fell down into the water below, which was infested with dangerous
animals. Kuamachi and his grandfather ran out of arrows before shooting Wlaha,
the leader of the Star people. He had caught seven arrows. He shot them into
heaven, making a ladder which he, the surviving Star people, and finally
Kuamachi ascended to become stars.
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The son of Omauwa (one of the first
beings) became very thirsty. Omauwa and his brother dug a hole for water, but
they dug so deep that water gushed forth and covered the jungle. Many drowned.
Some of the first beings survived by cutting down trees and floating on them.
They became foreigners and floated away. The Yanomamo survived by climbing
mountains. Raharariyoma painted red dots all over her body and plunged into the
lake, causing it to recede. Omauwa then caused her to be changed into a rahara,
a dangerous snake-like monster that lives in large rivers.
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Lexuwakipa, ibis, felt offended by the
people, so she let it snow so much that ice came to cover the entire earth. When
it melted, it rapidly flooded all the earth except five mountain tops, on which
a few people escaped. Signs of the floodwaters still show up on those mountains.
In another version, the moon-woman Hanuxa caused the flood because she was full
of hatred against the people, especially the men, who had taken over the women's
secret kina ceremony and made it their own. A few people survived on five
mountain tops.
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