Malorotare
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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