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The water rises when human blood enters it · and gives back what it takes. In both, a serpentine water-power is roused specifically by the pollution of its waters with blood and the dead; it surges over its banks, engulfs the transgressors' bodies, and then returns them (Scamander casts the corpses out onto land and hides the living unharmed; Yurlunggur vomits the swallowed sisters back whole). The flood is examination and expulsion, not appetite: neither keeps a single body.
Scamander protests 'My fair waters are now filled with corpses... I am choked with dead,' then rises in flood against Achilles: 'These he cast out on to the land, bellowing like a bull the while, but the living he saved alive, hiding them in his mighty eddies' · and after Hephaestus's fire, subsides into his channel.
set against Wawalag sisters / Yurlunggur
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