Milne Bay Province

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A flood covered the whole world except for the summit of Mount Tauga. When the waves threatened to cover even that, the rockface cracked and the diamond-studded head of Radaulo, king of snakes, emerged. His fiery tongue licked out to taste the waves, and the water, hissing, retreated. Radaulo slowly uncoiled and pursued the water all the way back to the ocean bed.

Annie Ker, Papuan Fairy Tales (London: MacMillan and Co., 1910), 30-31; Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology, (Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1916), 119-120.