A fish who ate stars. from "Story of cosmic forest."

 I would like to introduce "A fish who ate stars." from the picture book "Story of cosmic forest." which I produced before I started my activities at the Mithila Museum.

絵本『宇宙の森の物語』

the picture book "Story of cosmic forest."

Illustration and story by Hasegawa Tokio

Published by Dharma Shutraina School

A fish who ate stars.

A fish having golden fins lived in a cosmic forest.

He gulped stars if found any. 

He swam all the way if a little light could be seen in the forest.

Thousand years passed gulping stars and his body became bigger and started shining.

More stars were eaten, bigger the fish grew and has become extremely big.

Sheela, Goddess of Night sky, wondered why forest was becoming darker.

One day when she was in a happy mood playing the music of stars, she heard sound coming from deep forest.

 

Deiye Sarienmoh,

Deiye Sarienmoh,

Moh, Moh,

The Goddess flew toward the sound riding on a shining star called “Geet”.

Noticing the Goddess approaching, the big fat fish stopped eating stars and ran away.

Realizing the cause of darker night sky, the Goddess in anger took the ring of stars and threw at the fish.

The ring of stars with brilliant shine chased the fish giving a sound of Shruu Shruu Shruu.

As golden fins were broken the fish fell into the darkness in no time.

Plenty stars came out of the fish’s mouth and were flown away into night sky.

The fish kept on falling down and was becoming smaller.

The fish endlessly grew smaller and was dropped in the sea of stars at last.

Shining stars came out of the mouth of fish swimming in sea.

Goum is the name of a shellfish who loves to sing.

Stars fell down to the bottom of deep sea.

Boku Moku Moku Moku Moku Boku

Star realizing the place was not the night sky wanted to go back to the original country of stars.

Goum came near the star. 

The star asked Goum how he could get out of sea.

Goum thought a while and took the star to the forest of seaweeds.

Forest reflected the light of star and many silvery grains of light climbed up 

to the sky giving out sound,  pot, pot. The star held the soft round grain of

light one by one.　Looking at the scene, Goum began to sing;

Star holding silvery grain of light.

Star holding silvery grain of light.   

Bon Moku Bon Moku

Many years passed. In the forest of seaweeds green moss grew all over the star.

Goum, seashell, fond of singing died already and became a part of Sea.

The Star kept on holding silvery grains of light.

One day as the star took a grain of light, seaweeds suddenly shook themselves      

and the star was drifted up softly.

The higher the star climbed, the more sea became blue.

At last the star could make his face appear over the surface of sea.

Birds were flying in sky. 

Wondering to find the shining island on blue sea、they flew 

toward the island.

The star asked the birds how he could go to the country of stars.

The birds said, “We cannot take you to the country of stars but we may be able to 

take you to the top of mountain which is the nearest to Stars”

Birds called out to other birds to gather.

After a little while, the sky turned black with so many birds.

Birds caught the star firmly and started flapping wings, then sea started rippling.

and the star started climbing up into sky.

They flew over many clouds.  They kept on flying even in rain.

There were some birds who could not fly any more.

They flew out of the black rain clouds somehow and found a white mountain.

At last they were successful in taking the star to the top of high mountain.

When stars appeared in sky, birds went back. 

The star was happy as he could see his own country, but he did not know how   to climb up further.  He was looking forward to see the night every day. 

 

Thus, he had to stay there for long time till he turned out to be a steep white mountain. He remembered sadly about Goum, seashell, which became sea and

about birds which became sky.

One night a shooting bright star fell into sea and after that sea started 

shining night and day.

The star which turned to be white mountain wished to meet the shooting star.

The star of white mountain wanted to walk and search

Time passed,

They say the high mountain is still walking in sea.