www.CuriousTaxonomy.net
The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
New Guinea
© 2021 Mark Isaak

Mamberamo River

(map)

A rising river caused a flood which overwhelmed Mount Vanessa. Only a man and his wife, a pig, a cassowary, a kangaroo, and a pigeon escaped. These became the ancestors of humans and other species. The bones of the drowned animals can still be found on Mount Vanessa.

Frazer, 1919, 237-238.

separator
< Waropen New Guinea Home Sawos >