Salinan Indian Creation Legend

Salinan Indian Creation Legend
   This California tribe have a myth that after the Deluge, when all mankind had been drowned, a diving bird fetched mud from the bottom of the waters and the eagle god fashioned this into men who were the ancestors of the tribe.

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