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Mark Isaak

Flood Stories from Around the World

Miao (Hmong) (southern China, north Thailand, Laos):After people had lived on the earth for 9,000 years, two brothers noticed that someone was coming at night and undoing everything they had done in the field in the day.

The husband enlarged the hole and the Thai, the Lao, and the Lue came in turn.

The Thai, Lao, and Lue were less sooty, so they are not as dark.

The second couple became ancestors of the Lao people.

Kaw-hpa, Hseng-kio, old Lao-hki, Tai-long, Bak-long, the smooth-talker Ya-hseng-hpa, and others came and bowed down to worship.

The two taos sent six of these pillars and six gourds to the Muong Bo Te region and gave the rest to the Viet, Moi, and Lao people.

Accompanied by the Lo, Luong, Zhuan, Tong, and Lao lines of descent, they built the Muong Lo Luong region.

Dab Neeg Hmoob / Myths, Legends and Folk Tales from the Hmong of Laos, Linguistics Department, Macalester College, St.

Native American

Mount Shasta Native American legends

Legend of Lao and Skell:

Characters: Lao (Spirit of the Below World) and Skell (Spirit of the Above World).

Story: Lao, who resided on Mount Mazama (now Crater Lake in Oregon), frequently visited the surface and fell in love with the daughter of a Klamath chief.

Conflict: In anger, Lao threatened to destroy the Klamath tribe with fire.

Battle: Lao and Skell engaged in a fierce battle, hurling fire and rocks at each other, causing the earth to tremble and the skies to darken.

Skell, moved by their bravery, defeated Lao and buried him beneath Mount Mazama, creating Crater Lake to seal him in.

Numbers 11

To eat was to ruin of mankind

But the immoderate desire to be wise, or, according to Lao-tsee, to eat, was the ruin of mankind.

Half male, half female

Adam Stories

But the immoderate desire to be wise, or, according to Lao-tsee, to eat, was the ruin of mankind.

Planet

Creation Stories

Laozi (Lao-Tzu): The founder of Taoism is credited with the Tao Te Ching, which presents the Tao as the fundamental, indescribable force that is the source of all existence, implying a form of creation through the unfolding of the Tao.