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Flooding myths around the world
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Huichol
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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