{{no footnotes, date=July 2023 Noncomala was the main and creative deity of the Ngäbe of the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca in

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. He formed the earth and the waters, but they were in darkness and clouds. Wading into the river, he met the water-sprite Rutbe, who bore him twins, the sun and moon. In the Guaymis flood myth, Noncomala, angered with the world, poured over it a flood of water, killing every man and woman, but that the good god Nubu preserved the "seed" of a man, and when the waters had dried up he sowed it in the earth. From the best of the seeds came a new race of men, and from that which was imperfect came the monkeys.

References

*''A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology'' By Marian Edwardes pg. 127 Creator gods