Lower Congo

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The sun once met the moon and threw mud at it, making it dimmer. There was a flood when this happened. Men put their milk stick behind them and were turned into monkeys. The present race of men is a recent creation.

Kelsen, 1943, 136; Fauconnet, Max, "Mythology of Black Africa". In Guirand, Felix (ed.), New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (London: Hamlyn, 1968).