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Stories 4 of 9
But then the story tells that a heavy wind rose, and a violent storm began. And the rain came down till water covered all of the earth.
The young man who killed the nutria remained alive, and ran to save his life, and, how the story tells, he ran to the top of a hill. He remained in the top of the hill, and waited for the flood to retreat. The flood always retreats quickly, doesn’t it?
So the flood retreated, and when he saw he could do it, he went down the hill. When he saw that his brother and mother and father were drowned and hanged from a tree, he went down of the hill, as the story tells.
So he saw that everybody was drowned; and he also saw animals, whales and dolphins scattered throughout the woods, as the flood retreated. So the young man of the past went away, he went away with a girl, the two of them, and they began to build a boat.
They had nothing to build the boat with; so they decided to cover the boat with grass, and they remained there till morning came, this is what the story tells.
When the cold came, the young man had a vision: he dreamed of a coipo, he said he saw him. He also said he dreamed with food, and that he ate in his dream, it was a kind of vision of the future.
And while he was eating in his sleep, he woke up, and said to himself:
- Why was I dreaming of this coipo? I killed the coipo, and ate it while I was sleeping; but how, if I have no fire?
Then he fell asleep again, he slept, and then he woke up: then he woke up his woman too, how the story tells. And he said to his wife:
- Look, go and get a big wooden stick, I dreamt that a coipo was coming, so I send you to fetch the stick to kill him, and we will eat it.
So he felt asleep again, and everything he dreamt, appeared. So the earth was full of animals and things again, this is what the story tells.
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| Language(s) English, French, Spanish |
| Geographical origin southern Chile |
| Ethnic Group Kawesqar |
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