Introduction to Sleep
Princess Tanabata
Once upon a time, in a village there lived a young man. He lived by collecting firewood on mountains or plowing fields. One day, the young man found a strange object on his way home from the field.
“What is this? Oh, it's clothes! How beautiful are these clothes!”
He had never seen such beautiful clothes. There is a desire to have those clothes. He put the clothes in the basket carefully and prepared to go home.
At that moment…
“Excuse me..”.
“Eh, who called me?”
A beautiful woman appeared from the bushes near the pond.
“Yes, I'm calling you, Mr.”
“What's up?”
“Please return your clothes from me.”
“Clothes bidadari?”
“Betul, if there are no clothes of the angel, I can not go home to the sky.”
The woman said with a face almost crying.
“I am a woman living in the sky. I am not a woman of this world. I went into this pool and took a shower, but I forgot the time. Please return my angel clothes.”
“What clothes of bidadari? I don't know what it is.”
The young man did not say that he hid the angel's clothes, and eventually continued to pretend. The angel who became unable to return to heaven was forced to live on earth with a heavy heart. Then he went to the young man's house and began to live together with the young man.
The angel was named Tanabata. The young man and Tanabata became husband and wife and began to live in harmony.
A few years have passed.
One day after the young man went to work in the field, Tanabata saw a pigeon pecking at the crack of the ceiling beam. The pigeon pulled out an object-ASTAGA!!! It was his bare-hearted outfit.
“I-it is..., it turns out she hid it!”
If she wears an angel's clothes, she soon returns to being an angel. While in his heart, Tanabata felt that he had returned to being a resident of kahyangan.
Day becomes afternoon. The young man who came home from the field was surprised to find Tanabata standing in front of the house.
“Tanabata! Oh, angel clothes!”
When he saw the angel's clothes, the young man immediately understood what had happened. Then Tanabata said as he soared into the sky.
“My dear, if you feel like loving me, weave a thousand pairs of straw sandals and bury them around a bamboo tree. Thus, we will definitely meet again. Please.., do…. I'll wait.”
Tanabata drifted higher and higher, then returned to the sky.
The young man was very sad. Then starting the next day, he immediately made straw sandals. He was constantly weaving it all day. Every time he counted the woven straw sandals, he said ‘not quite’, and continued weaving again, then counting again. So repeatedly.
One day, he finally finished burying a thousand pairs of straw sandals around the bamboo.
“Huff, what's enough with this?”
Once he finished burying the straw sandals, it turned out that the bamboo was growing rapidly and growing high into the sky firmly.
“Oh, I get it! If I keep climbing this, I can definitely meet with Tanabata..”.
The young man quickly began to climb the towering bamboo. When the distance was just a little longer to reach the sky, he could not reach it.
It turns out that when weaving straw sandals with the feeling of wanting to meet Tanabata, straw sandals that must be buried as many as 1000 pairs only amounted to 999 pairs only. So, just one more step he could reach her.
The voice of the youth reached Tanabata's ears who were spinning with looms over the sky.
“Wah, do-don't this sound...”.
She tried to peek out from above the clouds, and rightly, it turned out to be the voice of her beloved husband.
“My darling, my dear!”
“Tanabata, Tanabata!”
Tanabata stretched out the one and lifted the maid up on the cloud.
“Tanabata, I miss you..”.
The two people grabbed each other's hands and felt happy.
At that moment, a man's face appeared on the sidelines of the cloud. He is Tanabata's father.
“Who is that boy?” Ask Tanabata's father.
“This is my husband,” replied Tanabata.
“It's nice to meet you,” said the Youth.
Tanabata's father doesn't like his daughter marrying a man from the underworld. Therefore, Tanabata's father thought of having the Youth do the hard work to trouble the Youth.
“Hmm! So what do you do in the underworld?”
“I work in fields or mountains.”
“Then be well. I'm asking you to do this.”
Tanabata's father had the young man sow the seeds in the field in three days. The young man tried, then finished sowing the seeds in three days as requested. But Tanabata's father said again,
“I told you to sow seeds in the rice fields over there.”
“Lho, box...”.
The young man was very disappointed. Tanabata who saw this situation felt like helping her husband. He asked for help from a pigeon.
“Please call your friends and sprinkle the seeds that are in the fields into the rice fields.”
The dove gathered his friends and pecked the seeds in the field. Then fly over the fields and sow the seeds from above. This work was completed in the blink of an eye.
This time Tanabata's father, who was upset, ordered even more difficult work.
He asked the young man to guard the pumpkin fields for three days and three nights. When guarding the field of pumpkins will usually feel very thirsty. But if the pumpkin is eaten, there will be serious problems.
“Just don't eat pumpkin!” tanabata Message.
However, even though the young man had been told by Tanabata, he could not help his thirst. Finally he could not take it anymore and ate the pumpkin. In the blink of an eye, water spilled from the gourd. The spilled water became a river and began to flow and let out a rumbling sound.
“My darling!”
“Tanabata!”
Tanabata and the young man were suddenly separated.
Thus, the figure of two men facing the flanking of the river became the star of Altair and Vega.
The two men got Tanabata's father's permission to meet only once a year, on the night of July 7.
The two stars are still sparkling beautifully, flanking the Milky Way