Air maid became water mother, was alone, without another

She swam over the endless lake, searching for land, a home to make

In the sky an exhausted teal, it spotted land, uttered a squeal

The bird landed on the girl's knee, barren rock without bush or tree

It laid an egg, began to breed, the maiden wept, she did not heed

But when her flesh burned by the heat, she cast the poor bird off its seat

The egg was broken and scattered, the shell's many pieces shattered

And so the wide earth was made, under the new born heaven's shade