Tahitian Creation Legend

Tahitian Creation Legend
   One couple survived the Deluge by climbing to the top of Pitohito, the highest mountain in Tahiti. After the flood subsided they had two children, a son and a daughter, from whom sprang all the inhabitants. This myth may be pre-Polynesian.

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