Shiva is the God that created all kinds of creature on earth. He created mosquitoes first. At that time, mosquitoes were bigger than vultures and they constantly flew around to look for humans as food anyone eaten by the mosquitoes had only their skeletons left.
Everyone was horrified. No one could find any way to protect themselves from mosquitoes so they took turns to be its prey every night from that day on. The person who knew his turn was approaching wept and lamented over his incoming death.
Everyone was horrified. No one could find any way to protect themselves from mosquitoes so they took turns to be its prey every night from that day on. The person who knew his turn was approaching wept and lamented over his incoming death.
At that time, an intelligent millionaire's daughter felt so much pity for the villagers who took turns to be eaten by the mosquitoes that she decided to seek means to save them, otherwise, they all would be eaten by the mosquitoes. There would be no more people in the future.
With that thought, she went to meet her parents and said, "I would like to go with others to be eaten by the mosquitoes."
Having heard that, her parents became furious and responded," Why are you so stupid? People in this country try to escape death, while you foolishly want to die,"
In spite of her parents' responses, she 'still kept begging them to be a prey of the mosquitoes. Finding that their daughter was stubborn and did not listen to them. They became furious and said, “If you want to die and do not listen to us, get out of my sight!”
She was glad to hear that. Then she walked to where people were to be eaten by the mosquitoes and said, "If you all want to save your life, please follow me and you will definitely escape death."
"We all have to collect piles of dry leaves here. As soon as the mosquitoes fly closer to us, we will light the piles, and then it would generate smoke around us. And we shall stay in the middle of the fire circle so that the mosquitoes dare not fly across the fire to eat us."
Everyone understood her idea and agreed to follow her. When the night came, mosquitoes came as usual to eat people. The villagers sparked the flame and kept it burning, as instructed by the millionaire's daughter. Seeing that, the mosquitoes dared not across the fire to eat the people.
They talked among themselves, “If we are still as big as we are now, we would never be able to bite people for whenever they make fire; we cannot get close to them. Hence, we have to inform our creator Shiva and asked him to make us smaller so that we could furtively bite people. Never let the people see us, so it is easier for us [to bite them].”
Then the mosquitoes gathered together and flew to heaven to meet Shiva to ask him to make their bodies smaller. At that time, Shiva made the mosquitoes smaller, at the size they are today.
When they became smaller as they wished, the mosquitoes expressed their gratitude to Shiva and returned to the people world. And they wandered from one village to another to search for people to bite. However, people always swatted them with their hand causing some of them to die, while other was injured with broken wings and limbs. Therefore, the people felt relieved and happier.
The mosquitoes met again, "Now we suffer terribly because of the people. They swat us, and they would make our species extinct and we will never be able to bite them again. So we have to go to Shiva again so that he would make our mouths sharper like a needle. Hence, we could be quick in biting them and they would never know it." Then they gathered together and flew to ask Shiva to make their mouth sharper to make it easier to bite people.
Shiva responded, "Mosquitoes! The mouth I made for you is sharp enough. lf you want to bite people quicker, you should find yourself a stick to help beat it out. But you should know that people do have this stick, so you all just go back."
The mosquitoes flew back to the people's world, and they wandered around to look for people to bite everywhere day and night, using their wings as the mallet to beat the people and bite people quickly, as advised by Shiva.
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With that thought, she went to meet her parents and said, "I would like to go with others to be eaten by the mosquitoes."
Having heard that, her parents became furious and responded," Why are you so stupid? People in this country try to escape death, while you foolishly want to die,"
In spite of her parents' responses, she 'still kept begging them to be a prey of the mosquitoes. Finding that their daughter was stubborn and did not listen to them. They became furious and said, “If you want to die and do not listen to us, get out of my sight!”
She was glad to hear that. Then she walked to where people were to be eaten by the mosquitoes and said, "If you all want to save your life, please follow me and you will definitely escape death."
"We all have to collect piles of dry leaves here. As soon as the mosquitoes fly closer to us, we will light the piles, and then it would generate smoke around us. And we shall stay in the middle of the fire circle so that the mosquitoes dare not fly across the fire to eat us."
Everyone understood her idea and agreed to follow her. When the night came, mosquitoes came as usual to eat people. The villagers sparked the flame and kept it burning, as instructed by the millionaire's daughter. Seeing that, the mosquitoes dared not across the fire to eat the people.
They talked among themselves, “If we are still as big as we are now, we would never be able to bite people for whenever they make fire; we cannot get close to them. Hence, we have to inform our creator Shiva and asked him to make us smaller so that we could furtively bite people. Never let the people see us, so it is easier for us [to bite them].”
Then the mosquitoes gathered together and flew to heaven to meet Shiva to ask him to make their bodies smaller. At that time, Shiva made the mosquitoes smaller, at the size they are today.
When they became smaller as they wished, the mosquitoes expressed their gratitude to Shiva and returned to the people world. And they wandered from one village to another to search for people to bite. However, people always swatted them with their hand causing some of them to die, while other was injured with broken wings and limbs. Therefore, the people felt relieved and happier.
The mosquitoes met again, "Now we suffer terribly because of the people. They swat us, and they would make our species extinct and we will never be able to bite them again. So we have to go to Shiva again so that he would make our mouths sharper like a needle. Hence, we could be quick in biting them and they would never know it." Then they gathered together and flew to ask Shiva to make their mouth sharper to make it easier to bite people.
Shiva responded, "Mosquitoes! The mouth I made for you is sharp enough. lf you want to bite people quicker, you should find yourself a stick to help beat it out. But you should know that people do have this stick, so you all just go back."
The mosquitoes flew back to the people's world, and they wandered around to look for people to bite everywhere day and night, using their wings as the mallet to beat the people and bite people quickly, as advised by Shiva.
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