LITHUANIAN FLOOD STORY
From his heavenly window, the supreme god Pramzimas saw nothing but war and injustice among mankind.
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He sent two giants, Wandu and Wejas (water and wind), to destroy earth.
After twenty days and nights, little was left.
Pramzimas looked to see the progress.
He happened to be eating nuts at the time, and he threw down the shells.
One happened to land on the peak of the tallest mountain, where some people and animals had sought refuge.
Everybody climbed in and survived the flood floating in the nutshell.
God's wrath abated, he ordered the wind and water to abate.
The people dispersed, except for one elderly couple who stayed where they landed.
To comfort them, God sent the rainbow and advised them to jump over the bones of the earth nine times.
They did so, and up sprang nine other couples, from which the nine Lithuanian tribes descended. [Gaster, p. 93]
Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row, New York, 1969. (Most of the flood stories in this work are taken from Frazer, 1919.)
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