Ⅲ.“Legend about the Ancestor of De’ang Ethnic Grou...
“Legend about the Ancestor of De’ang Ethnic Group”is a long creation myth of the De’ang Ethnic Group with 1,900 lines.The title is written in De’ang language, meaning the“legend about our ancestor”, which is called as“the heavenly king and earth mother legend”.
In ancient times, there was no life on the earth, and it was desolate.The sky was full of lush tea trees, so it was extremely beautiful.In order to have life on the earth, the little tea tree would rather go down to the earth to endure pain, so a gust of wind blew the sky dark, and the wind tore the little tea tree’s body, and 102 leaves floated down to the earth.Thunder and lightning roared in the sky, sand and flying stones walked on the earth, the gate of heaven opened like a gourd, 102 leaves changed in the wind, the singular leaves turned into 51 tough boys, and the even leaves turned into 50 beautiful girls...These 102 leaves turned into young men and women, defeated the flood, and defeated the rampant demons everywhere.Padaran, the earliest man in heaven, also grew out of tea trees.He said,“give up your body, and then the earth will have clothes.”The brothers and sisters suddenly got enlightened, said goodbye to Padaran, came down to the earth, cut off the flesh, crushed it and scattered it on the ground.The bouncing flesh changed thousands of mountains and rivers into green,the big ones into trees, the small ones into grass, and the thin tendons into vines to climb up the trees.From then on, the earth is full of vitality with green and lush plants, grasses and vines everywhere, all of which call tea brothers and sisters biological parents.
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