From: John Croft
Message: 3825
Date: 2000-09-18
> This legends have not necessarily to be fitted in Nostraticmythology. I use
> Nostratic because it's usually considered to be the ancestor ofPIE.
> be any other people older than PIE. Personally, I think a legend ofbirds
> picking mud from sea bottom, is more likely to be from islanders.Yes, it is widely found amongst Polynesian and Austronesian myth.