In the far south of the continent a Yamana legend from Tierra del Fuego states: ‘The moon woman caused the flood. This was at the time of the great upheaval … Moon was filled with hatred towards human beings … At that time everybody drowned with the exception of those few who were able to escape to the five mountain peaks that the water did not cover.’18 Another Tierra del Fuegan tribe, the Pehuenche, associate the flood with a prolonged period of darkness: ‘The sun and the moon fell from the sky and the world stayed that way, without light, until finally two giant condors carried both the sun
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