Макс Фрай // Сказки и истории // Почему люди всегда спят(бушменская сказка): Первым человеком на земле был заяц. Вторым человеком на земле был другой заяц. А третим человеком была луна, но она жила не на земле, а в небе.

The first human on earth was a hare.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:16

The second human on earth was another hare.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:16

And the third human was Moon, though she lived not on earth but in the sky.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:27

Some say though that the very first man on earth was Zagn.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 14:14

He got very tired of his own being given birth to, that since then he spend all his time sleeping soundly in his own shack. So no one ever knew anything about him.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 14:20

The hares married the Moon and went to the sky one after another to visit the wife.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 15:09

But they had no idea of how one should treat a wife and had no one to seek counsel from.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 15:12

A turtle knew, but it never told the truth to anyone.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:35

Tsagn also knew, but he was asleep.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:37

That's why hares and the Moon had no children.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 07:58

Other humans also lived on earth, but nobody knew that they are humans.

Ivan_89 11.01.12 в 09:47

Everybody believed them to be hairless and clawless beasts and didn't know how they should be called.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 15:24

So they had no name.

Van_Garrett 13.01.12 в 15:22

However these humans knew what needs to be done between a husband and a wife, and they have been doing it all days long.

kambala 04.05.12 в 15:35

They gave birth to many children, who later turned into fishes, monkeys and other animals.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 06:57

The elders say these humans gave birth to such number of children deliberately, for they to be hunted.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 07:05

Once the Moon saw from sky how hairless and clawless beasts treat their wifes.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 07:11

She decided the hares should manage to do the same and she brighten up considerably.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 07:18

But in those times the sky was too high above the earth, and for this reason the Moon didn't see all in details.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 07:29

So she calles her husbands-hares.

Ivan_89 17.01.12 в 07:57

The Moon told them: "Come and see how hairless and clawless beasts treat their wifes."

Ivan_89 17.01.12 в 08:02

For that, who manages to do the same I will give birth to many children and I will allow to turn them into anything you want.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:37

The hare who was on earth, has become glad and ran to the humans.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:41

He was in a hurry and wanted to be the first so much, that he even forgot why was he heading there.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:43

That's why when he came to humans he got confused and said: "Take me as a wife!" The humans got happy and took the hare as their wife.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:45

The hare gave birth to many children who later turned into fruit trees.

Ivan_89 17.01.12 в 08:13

On his way he got hungry and began to eat grass.

Ivan_89 17.01.12 в 08:15

He'd eaten so much grass, that he's forgotten his name.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 14:58

A Turtle was passing by and the hare asked her: "Turtle, tell me what is my name?" Turtle decided to fool the hare and said: "Your name is Sun!" Then the hare returned to the sky but not to the Moon, he has become Sun.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:48

Since then it's brightly not only at night, but in the day time either.

Ivan_89 16.01.12 в 07:38

The Moon awaited hares for a long time, but they weren't coming back.

Ivan_89 17.01.12 в 08:21

Then she went to Earth to animals without wool and nails and said: "Marry me"

aska0407 04.02.12 в 14:54

By that time the humans had already have so much wives, that there was not enough food and shelter for them, so they refused.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:50

And then the Moon began to cry and the humans began to calm her down.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:50

They agreed to deal with her as with a wife, but said that Moon and her future children must live in the sky because earth was already too crowded.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:54

For that moon allowed them to call themselves humans out loud, while earlier only hares and herself were allowed to.

kambala 04.05.12 в 20:55

Children wanted to go down to Earth to meet their fathers.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 14:58

They have dreams about they live as before with their wives and their kids.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 15:00

And if someone wakes up, he leaves the forest on his tiptoe not to wake Zagn.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 15:02

Usually that kind of man goes to haven, where lives the hare, that became a sun.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 15:04

But elders, who have seen more dreams, than we have, tell, that someone goes far.

aska0407 04.02.12 в 15:05

Nobody knows where they come.

(анонимно) 23.01.12 в 14:11