The mountain stream Kara-Su loved the water lily-Ygu that grew in the backwaters. Large, yellow, like the eyes of the green god Kurgamysh.
OK.
Kisses, tenderly twitches Kara-Su's soft shoulders. Yoo jumps up like an amulet and laughs:
- Aph... aph...
Kara-Su says:
- Why don’t you love me alone? Everyone laughs. Sky, shore. Everyone. I don't want it that way.
Ygu laughs and says:
- I can’t... alas... aph...
And the wind-Choin was jealous of Kara-Su. Everything is absorbed into itself - the sky, the shore, the poplars. And he, the wind, smells only of herbs.
He says to Kara-Su:
- Take a water lily to the bottom, I will help.
The wind-Choin began to shake Kara-Su.
The waves smiled at first. They made angry faces. And then they cowered and grabbed the water lily by the throat.
Doesn't yield to Ygu.
“Aphids... aphids...” she runs through the waves, laughing.
The waves are black.
And she shakes off the yellow feathers and laughs:
- Aph... aph...
The wind called Autumn Brother.
Autumn Brother has come - there is a wonderful smell. He sniffed it with his nose (the nose is wide, like a mushroom). Said:
- I can.
I ran into a poplar.
- Hruk!..
The twig broke and fell into the stream.
Autumn Brother sat on a twig, swam onto a water lily and cut its throat.
The brothers flew away.
Kara-Su spun with joy. I dragged Ygu to the bottom.
- Yeah! - speaks.
OK.
The water lily-Yigu has just withered. No sun. Without the affectionate god Kurgamysh.
Kara-Su fell ill from sadness. He began to rush ashore, and then, out of shame, covered himself with a white mantle, like a Kyrgyz woman, and raves about the summer, the taiga, Ygu.
Winter Brother came and with a whistle (two teeth were missing in his mouth) howled:
— Ssschui... sschui...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru