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Water was everywhere. All people drowned except a few on a high place. Eagle and Cougar, wanting land, tied strings to the legs of three ducks, who dived for earth but failed. Turtle tried and succeeded, though he returned nearly dead. Dove took the earth from Turtle's fingernails to Eagle. Eagle spoke to it, and it became the world. Blue Jay, Crested Jay, and Coyote planted trees. Wolf was sent far south; his howling cures the world. These first animal people now live at a great rock far to the east.

Gayton, A. H. and S. S. Newman. Yokuts and Western Mono Myths, University of California Publications in Anthropological Records, vol. 5 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947), 55.