Ola and Dara'gisa
This is one of the many ancient folktales told in Syana, it tells the story of two well known deities in the Raa-Dyanistic religion. The "official" English version was first published in religous scholar Malina Di-mokoso's 1919 book Holy Stories In The English Tongue which was one of the first publications to make Syan culture and Raa-Dyanism known to an international audience.
Ola and Dara'gisa
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In the first days, the sky was born from the great creator Dara'Kaara. She named her first daughter Ola and placed her above the world. For years Ola watched as the Gods filled the world with many wonders, the last of these creations being Dara'Gisa, the first river. Ola fell madly in love with this handsome new being and called to him with sweet songs that blew through the trees and over the rolling hills. Dara'Gisa heard these songs and longed to find their source, so he called upon the king of mountains Jaar Di-O'balisaa to use his divine sight and see who was producing such sweet sounds. He told Dara'Gisa that the song came from Ola, the great sky, and that there was no way of getting to her.
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Heart-broken, Dara'Gisa forgot about his duties and the water flowing through the land ran dry.
Jaar Di-O'balisaa knew that this was a major problem and so offered to help the depressed Dara'Gisa by creating a new mountain for him to climb up. Dara'Gisa raced to the top of this new mountain, growing closer and closer to his unseen love. But as he reached the top Dara'Kaara saw that he had set his sights upon her daughter. Enraged, she made him as heavy as stone causing him to fall back down to earth. Dara'Gisa tried many more times on many more mountains, but every time he reached the peak, he would fall yet again. To this day you can still see Dara'Gisa Kanaa-a (waterfalls) across the land.
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