Cyrel Jay L.

Rosalita
STEM 2B

WHERE DOES RAIN COME FROM?

Long ago, there was a man who roamed across the whole world. He was travelling to find the
woman who will love him. One day, he m a beautiful lady

One day the God Pachacamac lifted the Andean Ñusta, the princess, to the highest part of
heaven we call it hanan pacha, and said: “I will give you this vessel of water so that from the
sky you can water the fields of earth. Obedient to the commands of god she watered the
Empire’s fields every day.

She had a younger brother who was happy, playful, and mischievous. One morning he woke
up and thought: “I’m going to go visit my sister and play a trick on her.”

One he was in the sky he saw her watering the fields of earth and peacefully said: “Let me
borrow your water vessel. I want to make the waterfall with force.” His sister refused and he
continued to insist. He wanted to get the big water jar no matter how and decided to take it
from his sister’s hands. In a the struggle water splashed out violently.

This caused a heavy storm and made the farmers and sheepherders flee to seek refuge in
mountain caves. Sometimes even worse things would happen. Since the brother was filled
with mischief, he made the jar break and the pieces fall down the mountain slopes where they
caused sparks and sounded heavily. This made lightning and thunder. As a result, the Ñusta
cried disconsolately. “Oh my pot!”

The God Pachacamac, on seeing her sorrow, consoled the princess and said: “I will give you
another pot but you will have to win it this time.”

The Ñusta responded, “I will think of the most pure and white things, the purest and whitest
imaginable”. As a result, a fine, white snow fell on the Andes. On seeing this the God
Pachacamac said, “beautiful work. You have won your vessel again. Here take it.
” With much gratitude the Ñusta continued to water the earth with loving care. In this way he
father sun sent his child the rainbow to stretch over it like a bridge from horizon to horizon
and it was a demonstration of motive of much joy.

Once upon a time, a beautiful woman named Rain lived in the sky. Rain was always wrapped
in a rainbow, and her husband, the Creator, was a fiery being. He was called Flame. They had
three beautiful daughters. When the eldest daughter was grown, she went to her mother and
said, "I've always wanted to visit the Earth, mother. Please let me go visit." Rain could never
resist her daughter's pleas, and so she granted her wish, and the daughter traveled to Earth.
There she met a hunter who was handsome and kind, and she fell in love and married him.
She never returned to the sky, and Rain and Flame mourned her forever. One day Rain gave
birth to another child, a son. She called him Son-eib. As the boy grew, his sisters doted upon
him. When he was old enough, the sisters begged their parents to let all three of them travel
to Earth to visit their older sister, but Rain refused. "No, I don't want to lose you," she said.
"I've lost a child already," and she pleaded with them to give up their dream. But the girls
argued and argued. One day Hyena overheard them, and he had an idea. He had always loved
the daughters -- they were so beautiful and powerful. He wished they would love him in
return. But he knew that would never happen, and this made him sad, and angry. Disguising
his wicked thoughts, he went to speak to Flame. "Your wife is keeping your children from
visiting Earth, but travel would make them wiser and better," Hyena explained. "I wish to
offer my services. I'll go with them and look after them, and you and Rain will not have to
worry." Flame, the Creator, thought this sensible. He convinced Rain that it was in their
children's interests to see the world. It would expand their horizons and deepen their
education. He told her he would send Hyena to look after them and carry them safely home.
The thought broke Rain's heart, but she could no longer refuse. A few days later, Hyena, Son-
eib and the daughters traveled to Earth. Before long, they came to a village. Some of the
villagers were good people -- kind, generous and compassionate. But some of the villagers
were bad people, selfish and cruel. As they were walking through the village, one of the
women looked at Son-eib and shook her head in amazement. "This boy looks like my
mother," the woman said. "He has her eyebrows. He must be related to me." So she invited
Son-eib, his sisters and their traveling companion into her home. "Let me offer you
something to eat," she said, but as she carried platters to the table, Hyena pulled her aside.
"Do not feed him," he said. "He is not a boy. He is a thing, and he must wait outside." The
woman did not know what to think, but she simply nodded. So Son-eib walked outside and
sat in the grass, waiting for his sisters. As he sat there, a beautiful red bird was flying past. He
reached out and captured the creature and hid it inside his cloak. When the girls were finished
eating, the woman said, "You must not sleep under the stars. I wish to invite you all to sleep
in my house." But Hyena said, "The daughters may sleep here, but the son cannot sleep in the
house. Put him in that tiny hut." He pointed to the hut across the field. You see, Hyena had a
plan. That night he hoped to steal away the sisters, and he could not do that if their brother
was watching over them. As night fell, Son-eib was sent to sleep in the hut all alone. When it
was dark, Hyena gathered some of the bad villagers. He whispered to them his plan of
stealing away the daughters. They agreed, and walked to the hut where Son-eib slept, and set
it on fire. As the roof became engulfed in flames and fell in, the red bird that was hidden in
Son-eib's cloak flew up into the sky. The bird flew straight into Rain's arms, and it began to
sing. "Son-eib has died," the bird sang. "He perished in a fire, and his sisters could not save
him. He is gone." Rain ran to her husband. "Listen to this bird," she cried. "What will we do?
They have killed our boy with flames! We must take vengeance on them. You know how to
punish the people of Earth." Not long after daybreak, all the villagers -- the good people and
the bad -- noticed an enormous black storm cloud approaching their village. Wrapped around
its middle was a rainbow. As it grew close, lightning flashed and struck all the bad people,
including Hyena. They all died. As they were dying, a voice from the clouds called out,
"Never again harm the Children of the Sky!" The daughters hurried back to their home in the
sky. To this day, many of the Bushmen are frightened of the rainbow. When they see it
arching in a rain-filled sky, they beat two sticks together and shout, "Go away, go away. Do
not burn us. Spare us from harm." And this is all because of the tragedy of Son-eib, the son of
Rain and Flame.