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Humans were once very plentiful and had long lifespans. Rice grains, when they matured, flew into homes on their own, and fish jumped from the water onto the grill. People became decadent and engaged in promiscuous sex. Yang ("heaven") became angered when he saw this. He sent Bok Glaih to make thunder and rain, causing a worldwide flood that drowned humanity. Only one woman, Xnghi, and a dog escaped on the highest peak of Ngoc Linh Mountain. One day the dog urinated on a spot where the woman had urinated earlier. Xnghi became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When the boy grew up, he asked who is father was, but Xnghi would not tell him. Once, though, the mother asked her son to take food to his father in the swidden. The son happily expected to see his father at last but found only the dog. The dog asked for the food; the son refused, saying it was for his father. The dog said, "I am your father." Thinking the dog was lying, the son beat it to death. When he told his mother about the incident, she said nothing. When the boy became a man, he wanted to marry. The mother said that, as there was nobody else, they would become husband and wife. (In another version, the mother had twins, a boy and a girl. They went in search of spouses, met each other in the dark and, not recognizing each other, slept together.) The mother gave birth to four sons and four daughters, who in time married among themselves. The eldest couple went to the plains and became ancestors of the Doan (Viet) people. The second couple became ancestors of the Lao people. The third went to the midlands and gave rise to the Cham people, and the last stayed and became ancestors of the Tmoi.

Dang Nghiem Van, 1993, 324-325.