Fak-fak area, precisely in the mountain area Bumberi, live an old woman with a female dog. The elderly woman with the female dog gets food from the forest in the form of fruits and cuscus. The forest is their mother who provides food for life. They both live free and happy in nature. One day, as usual they both went to the forest to find food. The journey is long enough they have taken, but they have not been getting food. The dog felt tired from exhaustion. In such a state they came to a place with a pandanus tree full of fruit. The old woman immediately picked up the fruit and served it to a starving dog. With pleasure, the female dog devoured the fresh treat. The female dog felt fresh and full.
However, the dog begins to feel strange things in his pocket. The dog's stomach began to grow. The old woman began to examine her and was convinced that her best friend (the female dog) was pregnant. Soon a puppy was born. Seeing the oddity, the old woman immediately picked up the pandanus to eat, and then he experienced the same thing experienced by his best friend. The old woman gave birth to a son. Both then take care of their children each with affection. The boy gave him the name Kweiya.
After Kweiya became big and mature, he began to open the forest and make a garden to grow various foodstuffs and vegetables. The tool used to cut the tree is just a chisel (stone ax form), therefore Kweiya can only cut down one tree every day. Her mother helped by burning the leaves of the fallen tree to clean the place so that thick smoke billowed up into the sky. Both did not realize that they had attracted people's attention with the smoke.
It is said that there was an old man who was fishing in the middle of the sea stunned to see a smoke pole that rises high into the sky as if contacting the jungle with the sky. He was amazed at how and who the mysterious smoke maker was. Curiosity pushed him to go to find the place where the smoke occurred. Then he immediately prepared himself with sufficient supplies and armed with an iron ax, he immediately set out with a cuscus that he maintained for a long time. The journey was quite time consuming. After a week of walking he finally reached the place where the smoke occurred.
Arriving at the place, it turns out that encountered is a handsome man who was toiling the tree cutting in the hot sun by using a stone ax-shaped chisel. Seeing that, he approached and greeted "weing weinggiha pohi" (meaning "good afternoon"), while giving iron ax to Kweiya to cut down the trees in the jungle. Since then the trees have fallen heavily. Mother Kweiya who rested in her cottage to be surprised. He asked Kweiya what, with what tool he cut down the tree so it could fall so quickly.
Kweiya seems to want to keep the new guests in secret. Then he replied that by chance on that day one hand was too light to be able to cut so many trees in a very short time. His mother, who had not yet seen him, believed that what his son Kweiya had told him was true.
Since Kweiya asked for food to be prepared, her mother immediately prepared as much food as possible. After the food is ready to call Kweiya to go home to eat. Kweiya intends to invite the man to join the meal to their house with the intention of introducing it to his mother so that it can be accepted as a friend of his life.
On the way to the house, Kweiya cut off a number of sugar cane complete with leaves to wrap the old man. Then upon his arrival near the house, Kweiya laid the "bag of sugarcane" outside the house. Inside the house, Kweiya pretends to feel thirsty and begs her mother to get a cane to eat as a quencher. His mother fulfilled his son's request and then went out to pick up a cane. But when her mother unwrapped the sugar cane, she was shocked to see a man inside the package. Instantly her mother screamed with fear, but Kweiya tried to calm her down while explaining that she was the one who outsmarted her mother that way. She hoped that her mother would accept the man as her life partner, because he had done good to them. He has given a very useful ax in their life later. The mother immediately accepted the child's proposal, and since then the three of them live together.
After some time, several children were born in the middle of the little family, and the two parents regarded Kweiya as their eldest son. The children who were born were then considered as the siblings of Kweiya. But in further developments, the brotherly relationship between them grew worse as Kweiya's step brothers envied Kweiya.
One day, as their parents were looking for fish, the two younger sisters agreed to gang up Kweiya and sliced his body up to the wounds. Feeling annoyed at the actions of his two siblings, Kweiya hides himself in one corner of the house while spinning the rope from the bark of the "Pogak Ngggein" tree (genemo) as much as possible. When both their parents came home, they asked where Kweiya was, but his half sisters did not dare tell him where Kweiya was. Then their youngest sister, a girl who had witnessed the fight, told her to their parents. Heard the certa. The old mother feels compassion for her biological child. He tried to call Kweiya to come. But what came instead of Kweiya but the sound that read: "Eek..ek, oak, oak, oak!" As he replied, Kweiya inserted his spun yarn on his feet and jumped up on the ridge of the house and then moved onto one of the tree branches in near their home.
Her mother who saw the situation then sobbed as she wondered if there was any part for her. Kweiya who had turned himself into the magical bird replied that, the part for her mother was there and inserted on koba-koba (umbrella mat) located in the corner of the house. The old lady then immediately searched for koba-koba then the spun yarn was inserted on his armpits and then followed his son Kweiya onto a tree branch high in the forest of their house. Both of them quarreled on the tree while chirping with the voice: wong, wong, wong, wong, ko, ko, ko, wo-wik !!
Since then birds of paradise appear on the surface of the earth. There is a difference between the male and female birds of paradise, the long bird of paradise called the "noga" while the female bird of paradise is called "hanggam tombor" meaning female or female. Both are from Iha language in Onin, Fak-fak.
Kweiya's siblings who witnessed the miraculous event felt sorry and then accused each other of what was wrong to be abandoned by their mother and sister. Finally they throw stones at each other with the ashes of the fireplace so that their faces are gray, some are gray and some are red and they turn into birds. They flew out of their home into the jungle with their own colors. Since then the forest is filled with a variety of birds that are generally less attractive than the paradise.
Their father summoned Kweiya and his wife and told them to change the color of the feathers, but they did not want to. Their father worried that the beautiful feathers actually wreaked havoc on them. He thinks someday people will hunt them, including his three other children. Father was disappointed because they did not heed their request to change their feathers. Now his father was lonely and sad, he folded his legs then pawed
I will tell you about the origin of birds of paradise from Papua so this story meinfirasi us to how we live among humans and respect each other.
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