I was bored and wrote this kid’s story
Himma had two children, Gigididi the daugher wise and beloved, and Bibiputi, the son, bold and inventive, like his father he was named after.
Himma did not want her children to go beyond the mountains which was her home. For the men out there carried swords and knives, and Bibiputi’s father was ruler to all beyond those domains with his queen Saraswati. Himma did not trust the outside world.
As they grew older, one day Bibiputi angrily declared he was off to find his father. And so he left the mountains to the east and traveled far and wide. He saw the men with swords and knives, and he swept them away with waves of his hands. When he was alone he would weep as he knew his mother would. And he saw other men. The ones with grain and naan. Who put away their swords and knives, and thanked him for his gifts.
His sister Gigididi, could not take their mother’s sadness anymore, and made her a promise to find her brother. Yet Himma was not very good with directions, and sent Gigididi to the west. Along her way, she too saw many things, men with swords and knives, and men with grain and naan. These men thanked her for her gifts and told her of rumors of her brother, somewhere to the South.
Many years passed and many battles were fought, and many pastures grew from their blessings. The land had become a far different place, vastly different from their mountain home. Vastly different from before they had come.
One day, while near her new friend Padma’s home, Gigididi heard a familiar sound. The booming whoosh of her brother’s voice. At last they were together again.
They talked of their mother, whom they both missed. Then they talked of their journeys, so much was seen, and so much more could be done. They would both set up homes in the south. And their children would grow and flow and travel the lands, as they had.
For the men beyond the mountain were young and brash, but with some help, they could become older and wiser.
The daughters of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra continue to spread and grow across the land, and the men beyond the mountains, with them.
