This is the tradition of the Tamanaks. “At the time of our ancestors the whole earth was overflowed. Then two persons alone were saved, a man and a woman, who remained on Mount Tamanaku, which is not far from the Cucivero river, where our ancestors formerly dwelt. They lamented sore over the loss of their friends and relations, and as they wandered sadly about the mountain they heard a voice which told them to cast the kernels of the nuts of the _Palma Mauritia_ backwards over their shoulders. They did so, and out of the nuts cast by the woman rose females, and out of those cast by the man sprang males.”[243] The Peruvians related that their first king and founder of their nation, Manco Capak, along with his wife Mama Ocllo, after the great deluge left their land, and came from the holy island in the lake Titicaca, on which the sun cast its first beam when the flood drained away.[244] A Brazilian legend is that the Evil Spirit Arbomoku, and the spirits of the air, made a compact together to destroy mankind. The former opened all the fountains of the earth, the latter poured the clouds upon the ground and inundated it, so that only one mountain-top appeared above the water, and on that took refuge two persons, a brother and a sister, from whom all the new generations sprang.[245] Footnote 205: Buttmann, Ueber der Mythus d. Sündfluth, Berlin, 1819; Lüken, Die Traditionen des Menschengeschlechts, Münster, 1856; Bryant, Of the Deluge, in Ancient Mythology, London, 1775, &c. Footnote 206: Parrot, Journey to Ararat, English Trans. Lond. 1845. Footnote 207: Joseph. Antiq., i. 3; see also Ptolem. Geogr. vi. 2. Footnote 208: Joseph. Antiq., i. 4. Footnote 209: Euseb. Præp. Evang. ix. 19. Footnote 210: Lucian, De Dea Syra, c. 12, 13. Footnote 211: Georg. Syncellus, Chronographia, p. 29, B., ed. Bonn; or Cory’s Ancient Fragments, p. 26 et seq. Footnote 212: Præp. Evang. ix. 12; see also S. Cyril contra Julian, i. Footnote 213: Bochart, Geogr. Sacra, p. 231. Footnote 214: Ekhel, Doctrina Numm. Vet. iii. p. 132 et seq.; see also Bryant’s New System of Ancient Mythology, Lond. 1775, i. note 3. Footnote 215: Orac. Sibyll, i. v. 260, 265-7. Ed. Fiedlieb. Footnote 216: Bundehesch, 7. Footnote 217: On the Chronology of the Hindus, by Sir W. Jones; Asiatic Researches, ii. pp. 116-7. Footnote 218: Bopp, Die Sündfluth; Berlin, 1829, p. 9. Footnote 219: Ovid. Metam. i. 240 et seq. Footnote 220: Steph. Byzant., s. voce Ικονιον. Footnote 221: Diod. Sicul. lib. i. Footnote 222: Mém. concernant les Chinois, i. p. 157. Footnote 223: Klaproth, Inschrift. des Yu; Halle, 1811, p. 29. Footnote 224: Mém. concernant les Chinois, ix. p. 383. Footnote 225: Mart. Martinii, Hist. Sin. p. 26. Footnote 226: Steller, Beschreibung v. Kamschatka; Frankf. 1774, p. 273. Footnote 227: Serres, Kosmoganie des Moses, übersetzt von F. X. Stech, p. 149. Footnote 228: