Tuva (Soyot)

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The giant frog (or turtle) which supported the earth moved, which caused the cosmic ocean to begin flooding the earth. An old man who had guessed something like this would happen built an iron-reinforced raft, boarded it with his family, and was saved. When the waters receded, the raft was left on a high wooded mountain, where, it is said, it remains today. After the flood, Kezer-Tshingis-Kaira-Khan created everything around us. Among other things, he taught people how to make strong liquor.

Uno Holmberg, Finno-Ugric, Siberian, vol. 4 of The Mythology of All Races, ed. C. J. A. MacCulloch (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1927), 366.