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The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
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Havasupai

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Two brothers feuded, and Hokomata angrily sent a deluge which destroyed the world. Before it came, though, Tochopa sealed his daughter Pukeheh in a hollow log, from which she emerged when the flood subsided. She bore a son, fathered by the sun, and a daughter, fathered by a waterfall; these two repopulated the world. Havasupai women are called "Daughters of the Water".

Alexander, Hartley Burr, North American, in Gray, 1916, v. X, 180.

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