Another story, attributed by the native historian [[Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl]] (c. 1565 - 1648) to the ancient [[Toltecs]], states that after men had multiplied following a great deluge, they erected a tall ''zacuali'' or tower, to preserve themselves in the event of a second deluge. However, their languages were confounded and they went to separate parts of the earth.
Still another story, attributed to the [[Tohono O'odhampeople]] Indians, holds that [[Montezuma (mythology)|Montezuma]] escaped a great flood, then became wicked and attempted to build a house reaching to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts. ([[Hubert Howe Bancroft|Bancroft]], vol. 3, p. 76; also in "History of Arizona".)<ref>{{cite web|author=Thomas Edwin Farish, Arizona Historian |url=http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/hav7/body.1_div.17.html |title=Chapter Xvii. Papago And Sobaipuri |publisher=Southwest.library.arizona.edu |date= |accessdate=2014-03-05}}</ref>
According to [[David Livingstone]], the [[Africa]]ns whom he met living near [[Lake Ngami]] in 1849 had such a tradition, but with the builders' heads getting "cracked by the fall of the scaffolding" (''Missionary Travels, chap. 26'').