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The Sun had a child, Napi, called "Apistotoki God." The Moon had a child called "Old Man." These four began creating the world. They were given sand, stone, water, and the hide of a fisher with which to complete the creation. A flood came, and they could save only those four things. Later, they created an old man, a dog, a man, and a woman. After a second flood, only those four were left on earth, and they created the rest of the world.

Marie-Louise von Franz, Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths (Dallas, TX: Spring Publications, 1986), 163.

The narrator of this North Blackfoot myth expressed some uncertainty about the identity of Duck and explained that the baby mentioned was a fungus.

Because the baby of a woman who married a star was heedlessly torn to pieces by a child, the above-people caused a flood. Old Man sat on the highest mountain with all the beasts. He sent the Otter down to get some earth. For a long time he waited; then Otter came up dead. Old Man examined his feet but found nothing on them. Next he sent Beaver down, with no more success. He sent Muskrat to dive next. Muskrat was also drowned. At length he sent Duck, who returned drowned but with some earth in its paw. Old Man put the earth in his hand, feigned putting it on the water three times, and then dropped it. Then the above-people sent rain, and everything grew on the earth.

Clark Wissler and D. C. Duvall, Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History vol. 2 part 1, (New York: The Trustees, 1908), 19.