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The next morning, animals began running past the village from the east.

Deer ran by, and turkeys, and antelopes, and squirrels.

For three days, animals ran past, fleeing from something.

On the morning of the fourth day, the people sent locusts flying to the east to find out what was happening.

The locusts returned and told that a great wall of water was coming from the east, and a tide of water from the north and from the south.

The people ran to the top of the mountain.

First Man ran to each of the other Sacred Mountains, took dirt from each, and summoned the Holy People, and returned to.

Turquoise Boy came bearing the great Male Reed, and First Man planted it in the top of the mountain.

All the people began to blow on the reed, and it began to grow and grow until it reached the canopy of the sky.

Woodpecker hollowed out a passage inside the reed, and the people and Turquoise Boy and the four Holy People all began to climb up until they came out in the Fourth World.