Incan Flood Myth

"In ancient times, this world wanted to come to an end. A llama buck, aware that the ocean was about to overflow, was behaving like somebody who's deep in sadness . . . The llama's owner got really angry, and he threw the cob from some maize he had just eaten at the llama. "Eat dog! This is some fine grass I'm letting you rest in!" he said. Then the llama began speaking like a human being. "You simpleton, whatever could you be thinking about? Soon, in five days, the ocean will overflow. It's a certainty. And the whole world will come to an end," it said. The man got good and scared. "What's going to happen to us? Where can we go to save ourselves?" he said. The llama replied, "Let's go to Villca Coto mountain. There we'll be savd" . . . When they arrived at Villca Coto mountain, all sorts of animals had already filled it up: pumas, foxes, guanacos, condors, all kinds of animals in great numbers. And as soon as that man had arrived there, the ocean overflowed. They stayed there huddling tightly together."

- From the Huarochiri Manuscript, a text in Classical Quechua from the late 16th century