Nivaklé

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A boy, Tawpatax, came down from the sky and stood at the edge of a lake. One of the women who saw him there took him home to raise him. But when she brought him home, he began to cry. When she tried to breast-feed him, he cut off her breasts, and she died. A cloud came over the earth and showed the boy how to do away with all the people who lived there. There was a heavy downpour, and the earth began to sink. All the people and animals sank into the earth. Not a single living being remained.

Wilbert, Johannes and Karin Simoneau, eds., Folk Literature of the Nivakle Indians (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1987), 89.