Takia

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Long, long ago, an expert hunter named Nges Tamol saw a giant python go into a hole in a tree. He blocked up the hole and went back to the village for help. When the men from the village dug at the base of the tree, they found python after python, but not the giant python which Nges saw. They kept digging, and finally they caught the giant python, tied him up, and took him back to the village.

When the men went to check on other things, the python turned into a man and went to the house of a poor old woman and her two children. He told her to take his head, middle, and tail when the people of the village killed him. Then he returned to his snake body.

When the people of the village killed the snake, the woman took a piece of the middle, tail, and head and returned to her house. Later, when the party was almost over, a strong rain fell. The river flooded and washed away everything in the village except the old woman and her two children. The three pieces of the snake came together and became a real man again. He married the woman, and they raised more children. From these came Kevasop Village.

Slone, 2001, 2: 774.