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The great flood came, and Noéh put pairs of animals on the ark. The floating ark struck the door of heaven. God sent down a beautiful buzzard to see if the earth was dry, but it stayed to eat the carrion and so was made ugly. Then the dove was sent down. The trip of a person who neglects his mission is known as a "buzzard's trip."

Horcasitas, 1953, 213.

When the great flood subsided, the two men who were in the ark sent out a buzzard to see if there was any dry land. But the buzzard abandoned the ark to eat carrion, and so it was condemned to be a scavenger. The heron, raven, and dove, which completed their mission, were rewarded respectively with permission to eat fish, to eat corn and fruit, and to go free.

Horcasitas, 1953, 213.