FLOOD MYTHS
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I.
Australian (Wiranggu)
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I. Australian (Wiranggu)
A. Djunban was hunting kangaroo
rat with magic boomerang, hit his
sister Mandija instead
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B.
Taught his people how to make rain
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C. Next day Mandija died, Djunban
did rain-making ceremony, didn’t pay
attention, made too much rain
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II.
Jicarilla (Apache)
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II.
Jicarilla (Apache)
A. Before Apaches emerged
from underworld, other people
lived on earth
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B. Dios told old man & old
woman that it would rain for 40
days/nights
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C. People warned to go to top
of four mountains, not to look at
sky or flood
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D. Those who looked at flood= fish or frogs;
sky=birds
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E. 32 people survived the flood,
told Apaches about flood before
they entered the two mountains
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F. Around turn of the millennium,
surface of the earth destroyed again,
by fire
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III. Skagit (Washington State)
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A. Creator made the earth and gave
four names for itsun, waters, soil, forests
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1. Few people, with special
preparation, could know all four
names, or world would change too
suddenly
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2. Everyone learned all four names
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B. When people talked to trees the
change came in form of a flood
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C. Giant canoe- 5 people, male
and female of all animals and plants
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D. Water covered everything but
summit of Kobah (Mt. Baker) and
Takobah (Mt. Ranier)
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E. Doquebuth, the new Creator,
born of couple from the canoe, made
people again from soil & bones of preflood people
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IV. Kammu (Thailand)
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A. Brother & sister warned by mouse
of coming flood, sealed themselves
inside a drum
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B. Looked for mates, no other
survivors, slept together
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C.
After 7 years, child born as a gourd
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D. People of the different races
came from the gourd
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1.
First Ruammit
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2. Then Kammu, Thai, Westerner,
and Chinese
Kammu family
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V. Pygmy (Africa)
A. Chameleon heard strange noise in a
tree, cut open its trunk.
B. Water came out in a great flood over
earth.
C. First human couple emerged with the
water.
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VI. Bakongo (Africa)
A. Old lady, weary and covered with sores,
arrived in a town called Sonanzenzi, sought
hospitality
B. Refused at all homes except one- told kind
people to flee, Nzambi would destroy
C. Town was flooded, houses can still be seen
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VII. Cameroon (Africa)
A. Girl let a goat eat some of her flour, goat
warned of flood.
B. Only she and her brother escaped, couldn't find
mates.
C. Goat reappeared, said they could marry, but
would have to put a clay pot with a broken bottom
on their roof to signify that they are relatives.