Samoa

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In a battle between Fire and Water (offspring of the primeval octopus), everything was overwhelmed by a 'boundless sea', and the god Tangaloa had the task of re-creating the world.

Poignant, Roslyn. Oceanic Mythology, (London and New York: Hamlyn, 1967), 30.

The only survivor of a deluge was a man or a lizard named Pili, who, by marriage with the stormy petrel, begat offspring to repopulate the land.

Frazer, 1919, 249.