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Two brothers, Agum and Amom, lived in a village on one side of the Mankon River, and a masalai woman named Aronta lived on the other side. Aronta had a big garden full of so much food that much of it just rotted.

Agum and Amom were afraid of Aronta, but in time they decided to kill her. They prepared many spears and built a bridge across the river. Then they quietly went to Aronta's house. Some hair hung from the house halfway to the ground. They twisted it around a stick and pulled. It was Aronta's pubic hair that they pulled out, and oh, did she wake up mad! She put her two long teeth into her mouth, took two shields, and went to fight the brothers.

As she chased Agum and Amom around, her two long teeth broke up everything around. Agum threw spears at her, but they all missed. A big thunderstorm came. The place where they were fighting became flooded, and all the areas around the village were ruined.

Aronta did not care. She chased the brothers to the river and across the bridge they had built. But when she was halfway across, Amom cut the ropes of the bridge, and Aronta fell into the river. She was washed down the flooded river and broke one of her long teeth on a rock. The brothers followed her downstream, and when she finally got footing to get on land again, they resumed the fight. Agum had missed with all his spears and had just one left. He thrust this one and hit her in the chest, and she fell and died.

Agum and Amom headed back upriver, but they were exhausted. They sat down and became two mountains. These mountains are called Agum and Amom after the brothers.

Slone, 2001, 1: 482-483.