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Parakeet gave birth to a daughter. Now Heviosso, the god of Thunder, came and said he wanted to marry this girl, but Parakeet was not willing. Parakeet said, "You cannot marry my daughter, because here one gives a great deal before marrying a girl."
Heviosso said, "All right. If you do not want to give me your Daughter, I'll let her go. We will see later when we meet again." When Parakeet is to bear children, then before the children can be born, it must first rain so that the eggs can break.
Parakeet laid the eggs. The time for the young to come out arrived. It was the time for rain but the rain did not fall. Parakeet took up the eggs and went into the bush, thinking that in the bush it would surely rain There no rain came. She took the eggs to the Ayo kingdom, thinking there it would surely rain. There no rain fell.
The instant she left Allada, rain began to fall in torrents in Allada. The instant she arrived in a country, that country had no more rain.
In the village of Ayo she placed her eggs on top of a Loko tree. One day lightning came and struck the tree, and the eggs fell to the ground. Good. She gathered up the eggs, and took them to the king of Ayo, and told him what had happened. She said, "Heviosso wants to marry my daughter. Now he does all this to make me suffer."
The King of Ayo called Heviosso to come to him. Heviosso told the King of Ayo that it was because of Parakeet that there is no more rain in Ayo. "I wanted to marry her daughter, and she refused to give her to me." Now Heviosso said to the King of Ayo that he did not even want the daughter. All he wanted was her red tail. It was her tail that pleased him.
The King of Ayo said to Heviosso to make the rain come, but Heviosso said in order for the rain to fall, he must have the daughter of Parakeet. So Parakeet gave the girl to Heviosso. The day she gave her to Heviosso, it rained everywhere. He took the girl with him up to the sky. Good. After that it rained every day.
Before then, Parakeet was like all the other birds. She talked like the others. Heviosso said to the King of Ayo he would give something to Parakeet to replace her daughter, as an exchange for her daughter.
The King of Ayo had Parakeet come. Now before Parakeet had a long, long tongue. Heviosso cut her tongue and said to Parakeet, "From now on, whenever you hear a person talk, you will repeat what you hear after him. I give you this right forever." So to this day, Parakeet can repeat all that a person says. That is her gift from Heviosso.
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