Ami

A tribal people of Taiwan, whose flood story shares details in common with
deluge accounts in other parts of the world. As explained by John Canon MacCullow:
“They say at that time [in the remote past] the mountains crumbled down, the
Earth gaped, and from the fissure a hot spring gushed forth, which flooded the
whole face of the Earth. Few living things survived the inundation.” The Tsuwo
version describes birds dropping many thousands of stones into the cataclysm,
suggesting a meteor bombardment. The only persons to survive were a brother
and sister, whose responsibility it was to repopulate the planet.
Their first offspring were living abortions, which became fish and crabs, because
the pair committed the sin of incest without asking dispensation from the
sun-god. Having angered him, they applied to the moon-goddess. She forgave
them, and the woman gave birth to a stone, from which sprang new generations of
mankind. In this final detail of the Ami deluge myth is the rebirth of humanity
from a stone, the same theme encountered in Greek myth and numerous other
flood accounts around the world.
(See Asteroid Theory, Deucalion)