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The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
North America: Arctic
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Natsilingmiut (Netsilik)

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Originally, there were no women on earth. Then a dreadful deluge came, caused by incessant rain. All men and animals died except for two shamans. They copulated, and one of them became pregnant. Their children included girls.

Asen Balikci, The Netsilik Eskimo (Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1970), 210.

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The giant Inugpasugssuk waded into the ocean to hunt seals. His penis stuck up out of the water so far away that he thought it was a seal putting its head up, and he struck it by mistake. He fell backwards in pain, and that raised a wave that flooded the whole district of Arviligjuaq.

Norman, Howard, Northern Tales, Traditional Stories of Eskimo and Indian Peoples (New York: Pantheon Books, 1990), 233.

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