"Mamma, mamma. Please, just come to see it," said my daughter. "Bodies flow, humans flow again."
When the flood tide came from a lower river, many things flowed over which were not only human bodies, but also such carcasses as that of horses, pigs and chickens. After these things flowed back to where they came from, the ebb tide came and brought human bodies and other things from the upper river. They flowed back and forth like that.
People couldn't yet dispose of the bodies in the water, because there were still too many bodies to be disposed of on the land. So they couldn't pull up all the bodies in the river.
So when the flood and ebb tide came, bodies were flowed back and forth by the tides. And children watched bodies and started to play at counting them.