Skagit
The Creator made the earth and gave four names for it -- for the
sun, waters, soil and forests. He said only a few people, with
special preparation for the knowledge, should know all four names,
or the world would change too suddenly. After a while, everyone
learned the four names. When people started talking to the trees
the change came in the form of a flood. When the people saw the
flood coming, they made a giant canoe and filled it with five
people and a male and female of all plants and animals. Water
covered everything but the summit of Kobah and Takobah (Mts. Baker
and Ranier). The canoe landed on the prairie. Doquebuth, the new
Creator, was born of a couple from the canoe. He delayed getting
his spirit powers, but finally did so after his family deserted
him. At the direction of the Old Creator, he made people again
from the soil and from the bones of the people who lived before
the flood.
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