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Flooding myths around the world
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Wiranggu (Australia)
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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