Posiruwo sanare, Nhunhwa naKakodi kwa likwete uholi. Awo kwa tungire mompora kumwe noyidira yimwe yikwawo. Kwato simwe sayo esi ngasi vhuru kutuka.
Once upon a time, Hen and
Eagle were friends. They lived
in peace with all the other birds.
None of them could fly.
Ezuva limwe, erumbu lya kere ko mosirongo. Kakodi yipo ga gendere sinano sosire a ka gwane nondya. Apa ga ka tengwire ana roroka unene. “Za kona kukara po nkedi zonderu zokugenda” Yige Kakodi.
One day, there was famine in
the land. Eagle had to walk very
far to find food. She came back
very tired.
“There must be an easier way
to travel!” said Eagle.
Konyima zokurara nawa masiku, Nhunhwa kwa kere nomagano gomawa unene. Nhunhwa yipo za varekere kupongaika nohunga da gwa koyidira yikwawo. “Tu di honzereni kumwe keguru lyonohunga edi twa kara nado.” Yimo ga uyungire. “Nampo nayi tu rerupa pokugenda.”
After a good night’s sleep, Hen
had a brilliant idea. She began
collecting the fallen feathers
from all their bird friends.
“Let’s sew them together on top
of our own feathers,” she said.
“Perhaps that will make it easier
to travel.”
Kakodi yige gelike ga wekere nsonga momukunda, makura ta howo kulihonzera. Makura ta liruganene mwene mavava gavali gomawa gomanene ntani ta tuka unene keguru lyonhunhwa. Nhunhwa tazi hundire nsonga, nye tazi roroka usimbu mokuhonza. Tazi sigi nsonga peguru lyosikopa makura tazi zi mokombisa zi ka wapaikire vana vazo nondya.
Eagle was the only one in the
village with a needle, so she
started sewing first.
She made herself a pair of
beautiful wings and flew high
above Hen.
Hen borrowed the needle but
she soon got tired of sewing.
She left the needle on the
cupboard and went into the
kitchen to prepare food for her
children.
Nye yidira yimwe ya mwene Kakodi omu ana kutuka a ze ure. Tayi hundire nsonga konhunhwa nayo yipo yi lihonzere nohunga komavava gayo. Konyima zokaruwogona taku kara yidira yoyinzi yina kuteremba meguru namunye.
But the other birds had seen
Eagle flying away. They asked
Hen to lend them the needle to
make wings for themselves too.
Soon there were birds flying all
over the sky.
Apa sa tengwidire sokuhulilira nsonga ezi va hundilire konhunhwa, Nhunhwa azo pwato. Makura vana vazo tava gusa nsonga va vareke kuzidanesa. Apa ya rorokere kudanesa nsonga yinhunhwagona, tayi zi zumbu momuheke.
When the last bird returned the
borrowed needle, Hen was not
there. So her children took the
needle and started playing with
it.
When they got tired of the
game, they left the needle in
the sand.
Konyima kositenguko, Kakodi ta ka tengura. Ta hundire nsonga yipo a wapekese ko nohunga dendi dina kuzegeza mokutuka kwendi. Nhunhwa tazi tara-tara posikopa. Tazi ya tara-tara hena mokombisa. Nhunhwa tazi papara mevango nalinye, nye nsonga kutupu oku va zi gwene.
Later that afternoon, Eagle
returned. She asked for the
needle to fix some feathers that
had loosened on her journey.
Hen looked on the cupboard.
She looked in the kitchen. She
looked in the yard. But the
needle was nowhere to be
found.
“Pe nge ko tupu ezuva limwe,” Ta likwambere kwaKakodi. “Makura to wapeke mavava goge yipo ngo tuke o ka gwane nondya hena.” Ezuva limwe tupu nina kugweda ko,” Yimo ana kutanta Kakodi. ” Nsene kapi no gwana nsonga, to pe nge po sitjiyo-tjiyo soge simwe zi kare mfuto zoge.
“Just give me a day,” Hen
begged Eagle. “Then you can
fix your wing and fly away to
get food again.”
“Just one more day,” said Eagle.
“If you can’t find the needle,
you’ll have to give me one of
your chicks as payment.”
Apa ga ka wizire Kakodi ezuva lyokukwama ko, ta ya gwana Nhunhwa kuna kuhada momuheke, nye nsonga kwato. Makura Kakodi ta kukura unene kugenderera pepi nevhu ta nyangura po sitjiyo-tjiyo simwe. Makura ta si twarerere, konyima zoyo, nkenye siruwo apa a moneka Kakodi, kugwana sinhunhwa aso kuna kuhada mevhu.
When Eagle came the next day,
she found Hen scratching in the
sand, but no needle.
So Eagle flew down very fast
and caught one of the chicks.
She carried it away.
Forever after that, whenever
Eagle appears, she finds Hen
scratching in the sand for the
needle.
Nkenye apa nsene zi mona mundunduma gomavava gaKakodi gana kulitoona pevhu, nhunhwa tazi rondora vana vazo. “Tundeni poruzera nepevega lyomutenya.” Awo tava limburura asi “Ose kapisi magova. Natu duka.”
As the shadow of Eagle’s wing
falls on the ground, Hen warns
her chicks. “Get out of the bare
and dry land.”
And they respond:
“We are not fools. We will run.”
