One day during the drought, a girl left her home to look for food for her family. Her name was Coramila. She collected a small amount of dry oat kernels. On her way back, she found a hungry and exhausted doe lying on the ground. She gave it the kernels she had collected, but the doe refused to eat them. She ran home and returned with a small bowl of water, but the doe did not drink from it. To encourage her, Coramila began to sing.
She sang a song of hope to her, about the grass that would grow again, about the leaves of the trees that would blossom, and about the sweet water that would flow in the streams.
Voo heard Coramila’s song and was enchanted. His heart was filled with sorrow and compassion for her, for the doe who lay at her feet, and for all the inhabitants of Cartica. He blew hard on the clouds to bring them to Cartica. Rain fell on the thirsty land of the island. The grass sprouted on the ground, the first leaves appeared on the branches of the trees, and the streams began to flow again. The island became green again. The drought ended.
Since then, every day Coramila would sing to Voo, reminding him to blow on the rain clouds and send them to Cartica, so that drought would not strike the island again.
For the island’s residents, she is a saint. She is buried where she used to sing. If you go there, you can hear the melodies of her songs emanating from the tomb mansion that stands there.
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