Book of the Hopi (Waters, 1963) gives the cycle: Taiowa commands Sotuknang to end the First World, Tokpela, by fire, volcanoes opened from above and below, until all was one element. The survivors are already safe inside the womb of the Earth, guests of the Ant People. The Second World, Tokpa, ends in ice; the same refuge repeats. An etiological tag explains the ant's thin waist: they starved themselves to feed their guests.
Fringe television and print fused Anu Sinom with the Anunnaki, the Sumerian sky gods, on the strength of four letters. The resemblance is phonetic, the languages are unrelated, and the Sumerian side has its own file in this archive. A second modern reading notes an ant's head resembles a gas mask and recasts the caves as bunkers.
Courlander's The Fourth World of the Hopis (1971) and the Malotki-Lomatuway'ma collections record emergence and world-destruction cycles from named Hopi narrators, so the cycle is not Waters' invention. But the archive's Book of the Hopi card records the dispute: the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office noted that elders listed as sources said they never spoke to Waters. How much of the Ant People cycle is his redaction remains the open question.
Twice the world ended and twice the survivors moved in with insects; what is a refuge story doing inside a destruction story, and why does every desert culture keep one?