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Flooding myths around the world
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Yakima
In early times, many people had gone to war with other tribes,
but there were still some good people. One of the good men heard
from the Land Above that a big water was coming. He told the other
good people and decided they would make a dugout boat from the
largest cedar they could find. Soon after the canoe was finished,
the flood came, filling the valleys and covering the mountains.
The bad people were drowned; the good people were saved in the
boat. We don't know how long the flood stayed. The canoe can still
be seen where it came down on Toppenish Ridge. The earth will
be destroyed by another flood if people do wrong a second time.
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