vineri, 17 septembrie 2010

Bisa si Beisa

There was once a large village with many people who spoke the same language. These people lived in peace. But one day a great fire came from the sky and suddenly there were many languages. Each language was only spoken by one man and one woman, who could communicate only with one another and not with anyone else.
So they were spread out over the earth. Among them were a man and a woman named Bisa and Beisa. They spoke in the Fayu tongue. For days they travelled, trying to find a new home. One day they arrived at the edge of the jungle, and it began to rain. The rain wouldn't stop. Days and weeks it rained and the water kept rising.
Bisa and Beisa built themselves a canoe and collected animals that were trying to escape from the water. As they paddled, they kept repeating: "Rain, stop! Rain, stop! We are scared."
But the rain wouldn't stop. The water rose until it covered all the trees. Everything died in the flood. Everything except Bisa, Beisa and the animals in their canoe.
They had given up all hope when, days later, they suddenly came upon land. Bisa, Beisa and the animals got out of the boat and found themselves on top of a small hill. Before them, they saw a cave leading into the earth. They crawled inside its cover feeling great relief.
Soon afterwards, it stopped raining and the water dissapeared. The animals swarmed into the jungle, but Bisa and Beisa stayed in the cave. They built themselves a home and had children, who themselves had children until they became a great tribe known as the Fayu.
Bisa and Beisa still live there today, but no longer in human form. They immortalized themselves into stone. Have you seen the stones in the cave? Back to back they sit. And when we have a problem we go to them and tell them about it.

(Fayu e un trib de razboinici in jungla din Irian Jaya, partea indoneziana a insulei Papua.)

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