Foreword:
This article mainly talks about the story of the four hundred brothers who built a house with Qibala. Seeing that Qibala was very strong, the four hundred brothers are afraid Qibala bullies them in the future and could only swallow their anger. Bring down the house and crush four hundred brothers to death. In the end, the four hundred brothers turned into stars in the sky, and Qibala turned into a big stone.
The Story of Qibala and the Four Hundred Brothers
Four hundred brothers dragged a big tree and met Qibala
Four hundred brothers wanted to build a new house and chose a tree from the woods to be used as a beam. After they cut down the tree, none of them could lift it up, so they all dragged the tree away, shouting “Hey, hey, hey,” as they dragged it.
Qibala was bathing in the river. When he saw four hundred brothers struggling to drag a big tree, he walked over and asked, “Little guys, what are you doing?”
“We are dragging a big tree!” Four hundred brothers replied together.
“Why not carry it on your shoulders?” Qibala asked again.
“We…we can’t lift it.” The four hundred brothers were embarrassed.
“Hahaha! How pitiful.” Qibala laughed loudly, “Look at me carrying it alone.” Then he bent down and carried the big tree on his shoulders: “Where to send it?” “
“Send it to our home, and we will use it as beams.” Four hundred brothers replied, and hurriedly led the way. Qibala delivered the wood to the doorsteps of the four hundred brothers’ homes.
“You’re so good! Just stay and live with us. What’s your name?” asked the four hundred brothers.
“Qibala. I want to be with you.”
The next day, they asked Qibala to find a piece of wood to make a pillar. Qibala quickly got a thick and long piece of wood.
Four hundred brothers wanted to kill Qibala
The four hundred brothers were frightened: “He is so strong that he can lift a big tree by himself. If he bullies us, we will not be able to deal with him, and we will have to be resigned to him forever. This won’t work, we have to find a way to get rid of him.”
Four hundred brothers made Qibala dig the soil and killed him
The four hundred brothers discussed for a while and finally came up with a plan.
“Qibala, we like you very much.” Let’s go down to the hole to dig soil today. The four hundred brothers said to Qibala pleasantly.
“OK.”
Together they came to a soil hole that they had dug in advance. Four Hundred Brothers said:
“Qibala, we can no longer reach this hole. Please go down and dig the soil.”
“Okay.” Qibala said and went down to the cave.
While Qibala was digging the soil below, the four hundred brothers asked from time to time: “How deep have you dug?” He said quietly, “We will start after a while.”
Qibala heard the discussion of the four hundred brothers and knew that they wanted to kill him, so he dug another hole on the other side of the hole.
“Hey, how’s your digging going?” The four hundred brothers asked him while lying at the entrance of the cave.
“Okay, I think the soil is enough.” After saying that, he quickly hid in another hole.
At this time, the four hundred brothers pushed the thick and long log into the deep hole along the entrance. When the log fell to the bottom of the cave, there was a loud “boom”, like an earthquake.
“Okay, he was pinned under the log and climbed up.”
Zibala used a trick to deceive four hundred brothers into believing that he was dead
The four hundred brothers happily went back to brew Chicha wine, preparing to drink and celebrate their victory three days later when the ants underground brought the news of Qibala’s body decay.
On the third day, they came to the entrance of the cave again and saw a group of ants burrowing under the wood with Qibala’s hair and fingernails in their mouths.
“Qibala is dead, we succeeded.” The four hundred brothers shouted with joy. They immediately ran back and drank carnivally in the house until they were drunk and fell asleep.
How did they know that Qibala was not dead. He was hiding on the other side of the hole, alive and well. He cut off the hair and fingernails brought by the ants and threw them to the ants to paralyze the four hundred brothers.
Qibala took revenge and crushed four hundred brothers to death in the house
While the four hundred brothers were sleeping, Qibala climbed up from the entrance of the cave and knocked down the house. All four hundred brothers were crushed to death, and no one was spared.
The four hundred brothers turned into stars, and Qibala turned into a boulder
After the four hundred brothers were crushed to death, they turned into stars in the sky, scattering in the blue sky to accompany Unap and Isbarak into the sun and moon.
As for Qibala, he didn’t end well either. After he killed four hundred brothers, Ulap and Isbarak, sent by the “Heart of Heaven” gods, pushed him into a ravine, and the mountain collapsed on him. He was crushed to death and later turned into a large stone.
