![]() There was a man Khowai Nongjengba who had a slave, a lazy churl named Ekma Haodongla, who was wroth because the suns rose and set alternately. "Now the Sun and his brother Taohuirenga rose and set alternately. The exploitations of slave Khwai Nongjengba and his reactionary plots They became even as the flowers that men fasten on the ends of their spears to catch luangs (small hill fish) in December, or like to the flowers that the King's wives and children present to the fields, such flowers as the Angom Ningthou daily offers up, even as such became the white hairs of the God. The hairs of his head became like the flowers that men offer to Pureiromba and all the other Gods. Thereupon his teeth became like the teeth of a wild beast, his rib-bones became the long dao of the Gods. He fell into a fishing weir and was killed. He was of a haughty temper and quick in spirit. Her third-born son was called Koide Ngamba, the younger brother of the Sun. His eyes became like unto the eyes of a deer. Her second-born son became rotten even as chicken's eggs, he became as the darkening rainbow. Thereupon the Lairemma ( Meitei for 'goddess') paddy and the great paddy were turned into Morasi and Iroya paddy. The first-born son was destroyed like withered paddy, and became like old dry paddy, and entered into the earth, and became even as the ant heaps. She who was the Mother of the World gave birth one day to three sons. "O my Mother, O Mother of the Sun who is the Father of the world, O Mother of all the Gods. ![]() Two Suns shining in the sky at a time Two survived out of the five sons of the Celestial Goddess
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |