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2.3 Nšč Wa Mended the Fallen Heaven |
The story is recorded in the Huai Nan Zi, a collection of the ancient fairy tales.
"In ancient times, the four columns supporting the heaven were broken, the sky collapsed and the earth cracked everywhere. The sky could not shelter people, and the earth could not support all the living things on it. Fires spread everywhere fiercely, water flooded turbulently like oceans, and wild beasts ate young and strong people while huge eagles snapped the old and weak. Seeing this, Nti Wa collected the colorful stones and melted them to fill up the breaches of the sky with them. And then she cut the four legs of the mam-moth turtle and made them the four columns to support the fallen sky. And then she killed the black dragon to fill up the cracked earth and piled huge stacks of reed ash to absorb the flooded water. So, the sky was mended, the east, west, south and north poles were straightened, the flood faded away, the earth recovered its plains, and the wild beasts died and all the people had happy life again. "
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