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Flooding myths around the world
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Gunwinggu
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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