Trique

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Nexquiriac sent down a great flood to punish mankind for its very wicked ways. He instructed one good man to make a large box and to preserve himself in it, along with many animals and seeds of certain plants. When the flood was almost over, Nexquiriac told the man not to come out, but to bury the box, along with himself, until the face of the earth had been burned. After that was done, the man emerged and repopulated the earth.

Horcasitas, 1953, 192.

Mankind deteriorated, in part due to the influence of Naac Chunguy, god of hell. Nexhequiriac, wanting his children pure and worshipping him, resolved to destroy the world and create anew. He ordered the gods of Water, Air, Death, and Fire (Naac Cunmá, Naac Nanéc, Naac-Nimá, and Naac Naac respectively) to proceed with the destruction, but two humans, a man and woman, are first placed in a box along with certain plant seeds and pairs of some animals.

The box landed safely upon a mountain, and a ditch nine yards deep was dug around it to keep it intact. From the human pair descended the Triques and all other people of the earth.

Ph. J. J. Valentini, "Trique Theogony", Journal of American Folk-Lore 12 (1899), 38-41.