What Did Sappia Do To Help The Hungry People Of Bohol?
What did Sappia do to help the hungry people of Bohol?
Answer:
Sappia nourished the weeds with milk and blood from her bossom. These weeds grew to be white rice and red rice which the farmers harvested and cooked.
Explanation:
The story of the The Rice Myth of Bohol is about a goddess that helped feed the people during a great famine.
The story began when the people of Bohol started to experience hunger and famine. All the livestocks were inedible and the fields were dried out leaving only weeds planted on the ground. The people prayed to the goddess of mercy, Sappia, to ask for food.
Sappia, from the heavens, heard the cries of the people. She saw the dense population of weeds and offered to help them. Sappia thought of nourishing the weeds to be edible and healthy for the people of Bohol. Straightaway, she sprinkled the weed with milk from her bossom. She emptied each breast until blood came out. Before she left, she whispered to the weeds that they may be nourished and be able to feed the people.
When harvest season came, the people of Bohol quickly gathered the nourished weeds. They observed that the ones sprinkled with milk were white, while the other were red. They called the new plant rice and they replanted these in honor of Sappia, and for the people to devour.
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