The girl who taught the world to Weave


This is a story of the time when the earth first man fell. And in these days do not wear clothes because they do not know how to weave cloth.
One day, God Matai decided to teach the art of weaving to a person. The God taught a girl named Hambrumai. And what were the designs of the girls wove? She sat by the lake side and saw the waves and circles of water. They wove the ripple pattern on cloth.
They spent days in the woods looking at trees and the designs of their branches. She looked at patches of sky between branches and wove in all the designs on cloth. She saw the natural pattern very clearly, whether it be in the trees, water, flowers, or leaf. When she took the cloth they wove, it was as though they dressed in nature. She was beautiful. And many young men wanted to marry.
One day, Hairum, the porcupine, came to her cave to steal her cloth. When he tries to get inside the cave, he was a rock. The rock to the river, and crushed Hambrumai. Also broke the loom on which she used to weave cloth.
Parts of the Loom fell into the river. They have been through the water in its journey from the hills to the plains. Wherever people a part of the loom, she learned to weave. The Mishimis believe that the draft made Hambrumai was butterflies.
To this day, the patterns on butterflies' wings, the drafts of the girls. And people remember Hambrumai to this day as the girl who taught the world to weave.