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The Flood in World Myth and Folklore
Mesoamerica
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Mixtec

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The earth was once well populated, when mankind committed a magical fault for which they were punished by a great deluge. The Mixtec people descended from the few survivors.

Horcasitas, 1953, 192.

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The god and goddess Puma-Snake and Jaguar-Snake raised a cliff above the abyss. Here they lived many centuries and raised two boys who had the power to transform themselves into eagles and serpents. The brothers established farming and sacrifice and penance; at their prayers, light appeared and water separated from earth. The earth was peopled, but a flood destroyed them, and Creator-of-All-Things restored the world.

Alexander, Hartley Burr, Latin-America, Gray, 1920, v. XI, 87.

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