Once upon a time, there was a huge 8ayan tree. Villagers built two images of a man and a woman sitting beside each other and placed them in the shrine under the 8ayan tree. People always went there to offer their offerings and pray for happiness. And those prayers' wishes were really satisfied. People called the images "Old Guardian Spirits." There was also a divine plant which had been growing on the 8ayan tree for many years, and villagers respected the plant so much.
Later, a woman was reborn as the daughter of a village family, and she adored the divine plant. When she grew up and when the worship time for the old guardian spirits came, she carried a tray of rice and cakes to conduct offering ritual for her parents. As soon as the plant divinity saw her, he felt pity on and loved her as if they both had lived apart for so long ad now just met each other again.
The plant divinity wondered so much that he decided to fly to see and tell Indra all story.
Indra forecast with his magic mind and learn that in the previous incarnation, she was the plant divinity's wife and the spouse prayed to be able to live with each other as a couple· in any incarnation or world.
When they turned old, the husband asked his wife for permission to be ordained as a hermit. When they both passed away, the hermit was reborn as the plant divinity, and his wife was reborn as a divinity. Then, female divinity was born again as a human to be able to live near the plant divinity, her former husband and to continue their love.
After Indra told him the entire story, the plant divinity asked to leave the Indra for his home. Along his way home, the plant divinity thought, "It would not be good if I asked Indra for permission to be reborn as a human, for now she is an adult. If I told her that I had been her husband who was reborn as a plant divinity, she would not get married for her whole life.”
Keeping thinking about the problem over unquiet night, he finally decided to transform himself to a huge python, and then crawled into her house to hug her while she was asleep. At that time, she was awakened, and struggled strongly to free herself. So the python explained to her that it was her former husband. However, she did not believe it; therefore, the python added that, "if you don't believe me, I will transform back to my actual body to show you now."
Suddenly, the python transformed itself to a divinity before her. At the time she saw the beauty of the divinity, she fell in love, and believed that the divinity was her previous-incarnation husband the plant divinity told her, "If didn't transform to this animal, couldn’t come to see you."
After they understood each other, the plant divinity transformed himself back to the python and told her, “During daytime, I can’t stay with you; I can stay with only at night.” When it was nearly dawn, her parents heard talking voice, so they walked into her room. Suddenly, they saw the python whose coil took up almost all the room space, so they were extremely shocked and cried out so loud in the house. The plant divinity panicked and escaped.
The daughter explained the entire story to her parents, and added, "Parents! My husband forbade me not to tell the truth villagers. That’s I just tell the villagers he is a simple python. Moreover, every day, my husband-comes to see me only at night." After hearing that, her parents just stayed quiet they did not what to do.
When a quiet night came, the plant divinity came to meet her in this divinity figure as promised. She lit a candle to see him, and then rushed to embrace her husband passionately. Hearing her talking, her parents entered her room furtively to see what was happening and saw a good-looking divinity. Then, they were fond of and content with the divinity very much. At nearly dawn, the divinity husband told his wife to bring her parents to dig up the treasure buried in the mound.
Early in the morning, she brought her parents to dig up the treasure buried in the mound. They found a lot of gold and diamonds, and brought the precious things back home. Since then her family had a lot of wealth, a huge house, and many servants. As time passed, the news was learn by far-and-near villagers.
About a couple having an adult daughter and living another village, this family knew that the family with the python son-in-law had a great deal of wealth, so the family was extremely fascinated and wished to have a python as their son-in-law too. The husband saw his wife felt sad, so he decided to go out finding a python by himself. The man explored one wood after another to seek a python.
Not long, he came across a huge python coiling on the top of a mound under thorny vines. The python had stayed on the mound for many days and hcr2 not crawl off the mound yet. It was starving, became skinny, could hardly move itself. Even though the man touched it with a stick, it still kept still.
The man thought happily, “The python must be able to bring me big luck because it is so docile." Then, he cut some vines to tie the python and stuffed it into a sack. While carrying the sack containing the python, he occasionally stopped to rest, and it was until dusk that he arrived home. Upon arriving home, he called his wife and daughter from outside the fence to come out and help him.
When seeing the python, the mother and her daughter were delighted. The husband bragged that, "This Python was so docile; I'm so contented with it." Then his wife pet the python's head gently and praised it that, "You have very good complexion; this is our luck." The python was exhausted and tied, so it just kept its eyes open and stuck its tongue out often. It was so ravenous that it wished to swallow a whole human.
On next morning day, the family slaughtered pigs and chickens to prepare wedding courses and make some wedding cakes. They invited many villagers to participate the wedding ceremony. To conduct the ceremony, the family laid the python on a piece of white cloth and untied it, and then the bride sat beside the python to salute the parents. Some villagers exclaimed, the family is so foolish. And some exclaimed, “My God!” and the rest who got drunk were happy.
When the night came, they carried the python into the bride and groom's bedroom. At that time she was afraid of the python so much that she wished to run out of the room, but she was afraid of her parents who were guarding outside the room. As a result, she just kept lying in the bed quietly.
At midnight, the starving python started to swallow her alive. She cried out, "Parents! Please help me because the python was me." Her mothers replied, "You fool! You husband was Just playing with you." No long, the python Swallowed her completely.
After a moment of quietness, her mother felt doubtful, so she lit a candle and went into the room. She did not see her daughter, but saw the python's abdomen was so big. Her mother wailed so loud during the midnight. The father cut open along the python's abdomen and dragged out her daughter who was unconscious. The whole body of his daughter stained with slippery liquid which smelled so bad.
Her mother washed her with warm water, and then she gained consciousness again. She saw all villagers watching her body staining the python's bad smell slippery liquid, so she was so disappointed that she rushed to stand up and snatched a water bowl to put on her head. Then, she ran towards the river bank with deep embarrassment.
She drew water with the water bowl to wash her whole body; however, she could not get rid of the bad smell of the python's slippery liquid. Thus, she thought that, "Oh! Poor II I can't stand such situation; I can't live to suffer this shame, so I had better died than live." She wore the water bowl on her head and jumped into the water to drown herself with extremely disappointed feeling.
Suddenly, she became a female dolphin swimming around to catch fish happily. Her parents ran to seek her, but they could not find her, so they sat wailing in despair at the river bank.
After arriving home, her parents dragged the python to abandon in the woods because they thought it was already dead. However, if a pythons gallbladder was still alive and if the python’s abdomen was just cut open, the python could not be killed. It could be killed only when its body was cut into several pieces. Many days later, the python healed completely and was determined not to eat humans until nowadays.
Thus, this woman, who had got married to the python, became the first dolphin in the world; she lived in the water happily. And then, she gave birth to a lot of offspring whose bodies look like those of humans; however, those dolphins do not have arms or legs. The dolphin's head has no hair, which looks as if it wore a water bowl on its head.
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Later, a woman was reborn as the daughter of a village family, and she adored the divine plant. When she grew up and when the worship time for the old guardian spirits came, she carried a tray of rice and cakes to conduct offering ritual for her parents. As soon as the plant divinity saw her, he felt pity on and loved her as if they both had lived apart for so long ad now just met each other again.
The plant divinity wondered so much that he decided to fly to see and tell Indra all story.
Indra forecast with his magic mind and learn that in the previous incarnation, she was the plant divinity's wife and the spouse prayed to be able to live with each other as a couple· in any incarnation or world.
When they turned old, the husband asked his wife for permission to be ordained as a hermit. When they both passed away, the hermit was reborn as the plant divinity, and his wife was reborn as a divinity. Then, female divinity was born again as a human to be able to live near the plant divinity, her former husband and to continue their love.
After Indra told him the entire story, the plant divinity asked to leave the Indra for his home. Along his way home, the plant divinity thought, "It would not be good if I asked Indra for permission to be reborn as a human, for now she is an adult. If I told her that I had been her husband who was reborn as a plant divinity, she would not get married for her whole life.”
Keeping thinking about the problem over unquiet night, he finally decided to transform himself to a huge python, and then crawled into her house to hug her while she was asleep. At that time, she was awakened, and struggled strongly to free herself. So the python explained to her that it was her former husband. However, she did not believe it; therefore, the python added that, "if you don't believe me, I will transform back to my actual body to show you now."
Suddenly, the python transformed itself to a divinity before her. At the time she saw the beauty of the divinity, she fell in love, and believed that the divinity was her previous-incarnation husband the plant divinity told her, "If didn't transform to this animal, couldn’t come to see you."
After they understood each other, the plant divinity transformed himself back to the python and told her, “During daytime, I can’t stay with you; I can stay with only at night.” When it was nearly dawn, her parents heard talking voice, so they walked into her room. Suddenly, they saw the python whose coil took up almost all the room space, so they were extremely shocked and cried out so loud in the house. The plant divinity panicked and escaped.
The daughter explained the entire story to her parents, and added, "Parents! My husband forbade me not to tell the truth villagers. That’s I just tell the villagers he is a simple python. Moreover, every day, my husband-comes to see me only at night." After hearing that, her parents just stayed quiet they did not what to do.
When a quiet night came, the plant divinity came to meet her in this divinity figure as promised. She lit a candle to see him, and then rushed to embrace her husband passionately. Hearing her talking, her parents entered her room furtively to see what was happening and saw a good-looking divinity. Then, they were fond of and content with the divinity very much. At nearly dawn, the divinity husband told his wife to bring her parents to dig up the treasure buried in the mound.
Early in the morning, she brought her parents to dig up the treasure buried in the mound. They found a lot of gold and diamonds, and brought the precious things back home. Since then her family had a lot of wealth, a huge house, and many servants. As time passed, the news was learn by far-and-near villagers.
About a couple having an adult daughter and living another village, this family knew that the family with the python son-in-law had a great deal of wealth, so the family was extremely fascinated and wished to have a python as their son-in-law too. The husband saw his wife felt sad, so he decided to go out finding a python by himself. The man explored one wood after another to seek a python.
Not long, he came across a huge python coiling on the top of a mound under thorny vines. The python had stayed on the mound for many days and hcr2 not crawl off the mound yet. It was starving, became skinny, could hardly move itself. Even though the man touched it with a stick, it still kept still.
The man thought happily, “The python must be able to bring me big luck because it is so docile." Then, he cut some vines to tie the python and stuffed it into a sack. While carrying the sack containing the python, he occasionally stopped to rest, and it was until dusk that he arrived home. Upon arriving home, he called his wife and daughter from outside the fence to come out and help him.
When seeing the python, the mother and her daughter were delighted. The husband bragged that, "This Python was so docile; I'm so contented with it." Then his wife pet the python's head gently and praised it that, "You have very good complexion; this is our luck." The python was exhausted and tied, so it just kept its eyes open and stuck its tongue out often. It was so ravenous that it wished to swallow a whole human.
On next morning day, the family slaughtered pigs and chickens to prepare wedding courses and make some wedding cakes. They invited many villagers to participate the wedding ceremony. To conduct the ceremony, the family laid the python on a piece of white cloth and untied it, and then the bride sat beside the python to salute the parents. Some villagers exclaimed, the family is so foolish. And some exclaimed, “My God!” and the rest who got drunk were happy.
When the night came, they carried the python into the bride and groom's bedroom. At that time she was afraid of the python so much that she wished to run out of the room, but she was afraid of her parents who were guarding outside the room. As a result, she just kept lying in the bed quietly.
At midnight, the starving python started to swallow her alive. She cried out, "Parents! Please help me because the python was me." Her mothers replied, "You fool! You husband was Just playing with you." No long, the python Swallowed her completely.
After a moment of quietness, her mother felt doubtful, so she lit a candle and went into the room. She did not see her daughter, but saw the python's abdomen was so big. Her mother wailed so loud during the midnight. The father cut open along the python's abdomen and dragged out her daughter who was unconscious. The whole body of his daughter stained with slippery liquid which smelled so bad.
Her mother washed her with warm water, and then she gained consciousness again. She saw all villagers watching her body staining the python's bad smell slippery liquid, so she was so disappointed that she rushed to stand up and snatched a water bowl to put on her head. Then, she ran towards the river bank with deep embarrassment.
She drew water with the water bowl to wash her whole body; however, she could not get rid of the bad smell of the python's slippery liquid. Thus, she thought that, "Oh! Poor II I can't stand such situation; I can't live to suffer this shame, so I had better died than live." She wore the water bowl on her head and jumped into the water to drown herself with extremely disappointed feeling.
Suddenly, she became a female dolphin swimming around to catch fish happily. Her parents ran to seek her, but they could not find her, so they sat wailing in despair at the river bank.
After arriving home, her parents dragged the python to abandon in the woods because they thought it was already dead. However, if a pythons gallbladder was still alive and if the python’s abdomen was just cut open, the python could not be killed. It could be killed only when its body was cut into several pieces. Many days later, the python healed completely and was determined not to eat humans until nowadays.
Thus, this woman, who had got married to the python, became the first dolphin in the world; she lived in the water happily. And then, she gave birth to a lot of offspring whose bodies look like those of humans; however, those dolphins do not have arms or legs. The dolphin's head has no hair, which looks as if it wore a water bowl on its head.
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