The Greek anchor holds the whole motif and ends in an etymology. Granted one wish after the flood, "he chose to get men" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK I, ch. VII]. At Zeus's bidding Deucalion "taok up stones and threw them over his head" — OCR wart preserved — and those stones became men, while "the stones which Pyrrha threw became women" [ibid.]. Then the pun is locked into the language: "Hence people were called metaphorically people (laos) from laas", a stone [ibid.]. Around this page the candidate lane collapsed completely, and instructively. The Kalevala's first rune births its hero from a water-mother, no stone in reach [The Kalevala, Rune I]; Yayati's fall in the Mahābhārata merely lists "stones, grass, wood" among beings awaiting release [The Mahābhārata, Book 1, Section LXXXIX]; the harp-rune seats its singer "On the stone of song" and ends in sea-pearls, not people [The Kalevala, Rune XLI]; the Navaho hits are stone axes and storehouses, and the alchemical Turba is off-shelf by class. Read, the candidates dissolved into geology: a keyword cannot tell stone-built from stone-born. One witness, then — but one in which a people names itself after the stones it came from.