Efe (Pygmy)

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Chameleon heard a strange noise, like water running, in a tree, but at that time there was no water in the world. He cut open the trunk with an axe, and water came out in a great flood that spread all over the earth. The first human couple, a woman and man, emerged with the water. Their skin was light, like the lightest colored of the Pygmies. They lived together and gave birth to the first child.

Geoffrey Parrinder, African Mythology (New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1982), 46-47.