It is said that there was a girl who reached maturity, Situngusobenhle was her name. It happened that the people of the entire village went to dig far from their village, and the girls also went to collect tsapa; Situngusobenhle was left alone. It happened that the Jubatente appeared, the Jubatente appeared, grabbed Situngusobenhle and went with her, soaring in the heights; they rushed to the place where her mothers were, where they were digging, they dangled her over her mother. - Situngusobenhle screamed when she saw her mother and said: my mother, my mother, I am leaving Jubatente. They dangled her. Her mother tried to grab her, but they only tormented her mother, they went with Situngusobenhle; and the mother followed relentlessly, walking and sobbing. When it got dark they reached
tree, climbed up and stayed up there. Her mother lay down at the foot of the tree. In the middle of the night, Jubatente took Situngusobenhle, they went with her, they went to their place. In the morning her mother no longer saw Jubatente at the top of the tree. She walked back and came back. Jubatente arrived at their house with Situngusobenhle. “They told Jubatente: let her be a great woman.” “And she became a great woman.” She gave birth to a child. Her husband was Jubatente. She also gave birth to one; she also gave birth to one more: three in total.
It happened that a party of hunters was convened; she went far to hunt; her husband Situngusobenhle and her children went with her; all the people went hunting. Situngusobenhle stayed at home with the old woman; they both stayed at home.—She came up with a trick with her children, she said: pretend to be sick.
A party of hunters left in the morning. When they were leaving the house, her eldest boy cried out, falling on his face, he cried, “Oh, I hurt myself.” “His father said: come back, go home.” The party moved on. - Another boy, following the older one, cried out: oh, my stomach hurts. “His father said: go back to your place.” The party moved on. - The youngest cried out, my head disappeared. “His father said: go back to your place.” They did this deliberately, deceiving their father, thinking to escape this way. All three of them gathered with their mother at home.
Their mother tied up her goods, took her children and went with them. As soon as the old woman noticed that Situngusobenhle was gone, she screamed, saying, “Yi yi, yi,” she sounded the alarm, the great woman ran away with the chief’s children. — One of the hunters heard and said: Quiet! Who's that screaming there? It seems that he is shouting: “The great woman ran away with the chief’s children.” “They grabbed him and said: he brings disaster upon the chief's children. They killed him. “The old woman screamed again, she said: “Yi, yi, yi, the great woman ran away with the leader’s children.” “The other one said again: even though you killed him, there is a man who is screaming.”
cheat He seems to be shouting: the great woman has run away with the chief's children. - They grabbed this one too, they killed him, saying: he brings disaster upon the chief's children. “She screamed again, she said: yi, yi, yi, the great woman ran away with the chief’s children.” - Another heard again, he said: no, even though you killed people, there is a man who is screaming, he is screaming: the great woman ran away with the leader’s children. “They caught him too, they killed him too; They said: he is bringing trouble on the chief's children, so that they may run away. “The old woman screamed again for the fourth time: yi, yi, yi, the great woman ran away with the leader’s children.” “And again the fourth said: quiet, let’s listen.” Even though you killed them, there is a man screaming. It looks like he is screaming: the great woman has died with the leader’s children. Leave me, don't kill me too. Let's return home, find out at home, is there a person there who is screaming? The leader ordered to leave this man. They set off and went home; They arrived home. “The old woman said: the great woman ran away with the chief’s children.” - The man said: what did I tell you? I told you, I told you, there is a man screaming.
All the people of Chief Jubatente gathered. The chief ordered them to follow Situngusobenhle. They went, a large army of many thousands, and with it the leader Jubatente.
Situngusobenhle reached the sea; she said: “Sea, sea, sea, part!” I am Situngusobenhle. The sea parted. She crossed with her children and sat down on the other side. Jubatente's army reached the sea and saw Situngusobenhle sitting on the other side of the sea. The army came and were surprised to see her on the other side of the sea.
Situngusobenhle wove a very long rope, threw it to the other side and she said: go, I will cross you. She just mocked them, mocked them. She picked up a sharp stone. - Said Situngusobenhle: grab the rope a lot. “They grabbed a lot of the rope. Situngusobenhle pulled the rope. When they were in the middle, she cut the rope and they
disappeared at sea. - She exclaimed: oh! the leader's people disappeared; pretending to cut on purpose. She again told the others: grab the rope again. They grabbed the rope a lot. She pulled them. When they were in the middle of the sea, she cut the rope again. - She exclaimed: oh! the leader's people disappeared. Again she threw the rope, saying that it had slipped from her. - She said: grab it again, a lot. They grabbed the rope. When they were again in the middle of the sea, she cut the rope and they disappeared into the waters of the sea. Finally there were few of them left on the other side, there were few of them now. - Said one of the remaining ones: the leader’s people are finally running out. And they came back.
And Situngusobenhle went, she arrived in her own country. She came, and there were no people there; they were eaten by Kukumadev. She saw a mountain that was there for the first time and said: what kind of mountain is this? “She went, she approached the place where their village was: she found a large thing, Kukumadev, whom she at first mistook for a mountain.
She came close to him, got under him, holding a knife and cut his stomach from below. - The rooster came out first: he shouted: kukuluku! Finally I see the light! for I have not seen him for a long time. A man came out behind the rooster. - He said: how! I finally see the light! -The bull came out behind him; he said: uuum! I finally see the light! - The dog followed him; she said: how, how, how! I finally see the light! - A goat followed her; she said: meh, meh! I finally see the light! A sheep followed her; she said: be, be! I finally see the light! “All her things came out behind her.” Everyone returned, everyone rebuilt, everyone was happy again, everything became as it was before. And that was the end.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru