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The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
Mesoamerica
© 2021 Mark Isaak

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When the deluge came, some people survived by climbing into the highest trees. Ahau became angry with them and, reversing their faces and hind parts, turned them to monkeys.

Horcasitas, 1953, 198.

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