Indian mythology: The Forest Transformer
once upon a time, there was a hunter, and his wife's little brother young begged to go hunting with him.
they came to a forest and saw the nest of a parrot on a tree near the cliff.
he told his brother-in-law to climb the branches and fetch the chicks.
when the little brother climbed next to the bird's nest and reached out to catch the little bird, the big parrot flew back.
they circled over the heads of the little brothers, making sharp whistlings, and scared him to come any closer.
the hunter saw all this, and he whispered in his heart: "it's useless." in anger, he left his little brother on the cliffs, and grew up ...
so that he spent five days on the cliffs, hungry and thirsty.
at this time, a leopard came down the cliff.
the panther said to him, "come here, i'll buy you some water!" the little brother thought for half a day, and finally, hungry and thirsty, he finally decided to come to the ground.
the leopard put him on his back and brought him to the river.
the little brother drank enough water and fell asleep.
when the little one woke up, the panther said to him, "i don't have children, now you're my adopted son." then he took him back to his house, which was a big tree hole.
the end of the tree shines a bright flame.
at that time, the indians had just learned to dry their meat with sunlight, while the panthers had a fire in their homes.
when i became a puma's adopted son, the little one often went hunting with his foster father.
when we got home, we baked our prey and had a good time.
one day, the leopard said to him, "if you want to go back to your tribe, follow the river.
but be careful on your way.
if you hear the cliffs and the ai tree call you, you promise.
if you hear a dead tree on the ground calling you, don't make a sound.
two days later, you can go back to your village.
then you'll teach your people to keep the fire." the little brother did what his godfather said.
he's moving on, not one step from the river.
soon he heard the cliff calling him, and he answered.
soon after, the chai tree was heard and he responded.
however, when the dead tree fell on the ground calling him softly, he forgot the panther ' s command and answered aloud.
that is why human life is so short.
however, we can live as long as our little brothers have answered the call from the cliffs and the chai tree.
let's go.
there's silence in the woods.
shortly after, the little brother heard another voice, and he answered the same.
this time it's the forest deformation god.
he's in the way of the little guy.
ask him, "who are you looking for?" "am i not your father?" "no, my father isn't like this.
his hair is long." the shape-shifting god disappeared and later appeared again in front of the little brother.
he had long hair and died begging to say that his little brother was his son.
little brother wouldn't believe what he said.
he remembers that father's ears were still hanging a long bunch of wooden sticks.
he's invisible again.
he'll be back in his eara bunch of sticks.
but the little guy didn't believe anything.
he said his father wasn't his face anyway.
he got mad at the shape-shifting god, and he jumped over and swung with him.
little brothers are so tired, they're too tired to fight.
so the shape god put him in a basket, carrying him on his back, ready to take him home。