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Children fleeing the flood

Nyuyva name belonged not only to the queen, but the legendary girl who, along with his brother Fusi (it also should be distinguished from the same deity) escaped death during the Flood. People of South-West China, Yao and Miao preserved for posterity a story about them. Here’s the story.
One summer, the sky was covered by clouds, strong wind got up, zagrohotal thunder. All presaged downpour. But people working in the field, did not hurry to return home. This was not surprising: the summer storms are frequent.
On that day, one man decided to fix the roof covered in wood bark, which is run. Two of his children, a boy and a girl, aged just over a decade, playing on the street and watched as their father worked. Finished, he called the children in the house. And at this time hlynul rain. The father and children have closed the doors and windows. They rejoiced at the warmth and comfort home. Rain becoming stronger, zavyval wind, thunder raskaty amplified, as if the god of thunder Lei-gun was angry at the people and decided nisposlat their heavy disaster.
Father like foresaw great misfortune approximation: cornice under the roof of his house was pripryatana iron cage. Now he opened it, and he took a fork in the hand, fearlessly stood nearby. And now, following the outbreak of a lightning strike and a powerful lord of thunder disaster Lei-gun, with the blue face, holding hands in a wooden ax, quickly descended on the roof of a house. He vzmahival wings, and his eyes radiated a bright light.
The man saw Lei-Guna, without wasting time, rushed to him, hooked fork over the belt, zapihal in the box and vtaschil in the house. Then the man called his children to look at plenennogo Lei-Guna. Children initially very scared at the sight of this strange sinelikogo God, but then calmed down.
The father decided to kill Lei-Guna and make it go. The next morning he went to the market for aromatic sticks, before leaving, he told the children: «Do not let him drink».
When the man left, Lei-gun squeeze zastonal, prikinulsya severely affected and asked the children to give him a cup of water. But the children, bearing in mind the prohibition of the father, refused to comply with his request. Then Lei-gun began to beg them to bring him at least a few drops, otherwise it’s going to die of thirst.
Girl you spare suffering and invited his brother to plenniku a few drops. His brother, thinking that a few drops of nothing bad can happen, agreed. They went to the kitchen, zacherpnuli some water from the boiler and gave it Lei-Guna. Lei-gun immediately poveselel, thanked the children and asked them to briefly leave the room.
Once the children left, was a deafening roar. Lei-gun, breaking the box flew out of the house, tore out on the fly mouth tooth and told the children to put teeth into the ground. If trouble happens, they will be able to hide in the fruit tree that grows from it. Again zagremel thunder, and Lei-gun took off in the sky. Children stood stone-still, watching him.
In the meantime, bought spices, and all necessary for preparing food, the father returned home. Seeing the broken cells, which disappeared from Lei-gun, he found his son and daughter and questioned them about what happened. The father did not unreasonable to punish the children. Feeling that is approaching a big problem, he began work: day and night people masteril iron boat.
Children playing, seated in a land given to Lei-gunom tooth. Do not they have managed to do so, as the clay has a delicate green sprout. It directly in front was the rise, and on the same day, an ovary, but the next morning – a huge fruit unprecedented largest pumpkin-gorlyanka. The brother and sister took a knife from the house and saw and was separated from the top of pumpkin. Inside gorlyanki close rows grew countless teeth. Children are not afraid, these teeth are pulled out and threw them, and they zalezli in poluyu pumpkin. It turned out that the place it is just enough to accommodate both. They dragged pumpkin in a quiet place to hide it.
On the third day, when the father has finished tinkering iron boat, the weather suddenly changed dramatically: from all sides podul severe wind. Downpour hlynul from the sky. On the ground zaburlili the flow of water. The hills, high mountains, fields, gardens, houses, woods and villages – all turned into a boundless sea. This flood arranged Lei-gun.
As soon as the downpour began, the children quickly got into pumpkin-gorlyanku and father sat in his iron boat. Shortly flow podhvatil boat, and the waves started to throw it from side to side.
Not from the water reached to arrive, finally, the sky. His father, an iron boat safely managing the wind and rain to the raging waves, sailed directly to the gate of heaven. He stood at the bow and the boat began a loud knocking at the gate with fists and shouting to be allowed to enter. Loud sounds «Peng-Peng!» Razneslis to the sky.
The spirit of heaven was frightened and ordered the spirit of water immediately to fight off the water. Orders were executed, and after a few moments rain stopped and the wind verse. The water receded, and there was dry land. When the flood stopped daredevil with his boat fell from heaven to earth. An iron boat broke into small pieces. The same fate befell and father came to the fight against Lei-gunom: it crashed to death. Children are also sitting in the pumpkin-gorlyanke to have survived. Elastic pumpkin, falling to the ground, jumped a few times, but not split.
During the flood, all the people on the ground were killed. As survivors were only these two children, who survived in the pumpkin-gorlyanke.
Over the years, children have become adults. Brother nadumal to marry his sister, but that did not accept because of their consanguinity. The brother asked again and again, and then invited the sister: if her brother will be able to catch up, they married. It was the railroad fast and brother could not catch her, if not shitril: he suddenly obezhal her side, and his sister, not expecting that, confronted with him face to face and ended up in his arms. Soon they became husband and wife.
It took some time, and the woman bore a lump of meat. The couple are very surprised, but then suddenly naletel gust of strong wind, and pieces of flesh scattered in all directions. Falling on the ground, they turned to the people. So in the world, post-flood, reappeared people.

Category Great Legends

Сентябрь 2010
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