Your artwork is splendid. The wave "eating" the fire was supremely realistic and reminded me of Bengali tales we were told as children, where monsters shouted "hau mau khau" in anticipation of relishing their prey...although in this case, the water wasn't a monster of course.
Thank you- I took a LOT of help from Japanese woodcut styles. They seemed to fit best with the story. Has Mau Khau is perfect for what Water did to Fire :D
This story (or should that be stories, considering it’s an amalgam of a few?) is my favourite yet. The concept of fire hiding in the stone is incredibly clever and wonderfully thought out!
I’ve never heard of the Nyishi people. Are we talking about the Assam region, or am I completely off the mark?
Thank you. In the old days borders were more fluid, so Assam is not wrong, or off the mark, but it's really Arunachal and parts of Assam where many of the Nyishi established their trading barter systems and homes. The Nyishi speak of the Kameng and the Subansiri rivers, and this would probably help to locate them. I would like to read more on this before giving you a firm answer, but if any of our readers knows more I'd be delighted for more information too. Things have changed a great deal and a lot of lifestyles with it, and unfortunately we are not presently able to give you our own current view of how things are now, since we can't travel anywhere presently. Hence we have been dependent on older material and on people who have actually lived among different cultures than ourselves. We do feel the need to acknowledge our incredibly varied culture and ways of being and this is why we explore as widely as we can, within our limitations. I would dearly love to travel further and experience a deeper understanding myself!
Your artwork is splendid. The wave "eating" the fire was supremely realistic and reminded me of Bengali tales we were told as children, where monsters shouted "hau mau khau" in anticipation of relishing their prey...although in this case, the water wasn't a monster of course.
Thank you- I took a LOT of help from Japanese woodcut styles. They seemed to fit best with the story. Has Mau Khau is perfect for what Water did to Fire :D
This was so sweet! Loved it! And the "silly rhyme"...reminded me of the stories we heard as children when there was always a repetitive rhyme in it.
This story (or should that be stories, considering it’s an amalgam of a few?) is my favourite yet. The concept of fire hiding in the stone is incredibly clever and wonderfully thought out!
I’ve never heard of the Nyishi people. Are we talking about the Assam region, or am I completely off the mark?
Thank you. In the old days borders were more fluid, so Assam is not wrong, or off the mark, but it's really Arunachal and parts of Assam where many of the Nyishi established their trading barter systems and homes. The Nyishi speak of the Kameng and the Subansiri rivers, and this would probably help to locate them. I would like to read more on this before giving you a firm answer, but if any of our readers knows more I'd be delighted for more information too. Things have changed a great deal and a lot of lifestyles with it, and unfortunately we are not presently able to give you our own current view of how things are now, since we can't travel anywhere presently. Hence we have been dependent on older material and on people who have actually lived among different cultures than ourselves. We do feel the need to acknowledge our incredibly varied culture and ways of being and this is why we explore as widely as we can, within our limitations. I would dearly love to travel further and experience a deeper understanding myself!
This is very well translated interesting story
Well done
Usha Bubna