Note 18 — Chapter VI · THE INTERPRETATION OF ANDAMANESE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS: MYTHS AND LEGENDS
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The Aka-Kede version18 similarly does not distinctly state that the ancestors who were destroyed by the flood were turned into animals, but the fact that the three persons mentioned in the legend are all birds suggests that it was at this time that the birds originated. The bird called čarami-lebek, having lowered the surviving ancestors to the ground with their fire, remained at the top of the Dipterocarpus tree and has been there ever since. The Aka-Ko̱l version of the same story19 simply states that the ancestors were turned into animals in a cyclone, but contains no mention of the rescue of the fire.