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七夕 Tanabata

            Time lived a beautiful young woman named Orihime, daughter of the King of Heaven. Legend has it that Orihime enjoyed knitting dresses for her father and found in this activity everything she could wish for to be happy. So placidly spent the days in the High Plain of Heaven absorbed in his work and to the rhythm of the monotonous sound of the shuttle of the loom. But one morning, when addressing the loom, Orihime saw a young and handsome ox herder named Hikoboshi and fell madly in love with him. Although they kept the romance secret, the king of Heaven warned his daughter of the love she felt for Hikoboshi and united them in marriage.

However, happiness was not going to last long. Their passionate love and the indescribable joy that they felt by the mere fact of being together caused that they neglected their duties; Orihime stopped knitting and Hikoboshi left the oxen to his fate. If at first the King of Heaven indulgently tolerated this behavior, he soon had to take drastic measures in the face that had acquired the situation. This was how he punished the two lovers and separated them forever by making them stars.

But to separate two lovers in all eternity with no prospect of being reunited was too cruel; So that they were granted the opportunity to meet again one night each year, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month. That night the magpies flock to the Celestial River and with their wings fully spread, they form a bridge that Hikoboshi crosses the river and into the arms of his beloved. When the night is over, he returns to his work as an ox herder and she stays knitting, both longing for the next reunion.

Unfortunately for lovers, their annual meeting depends on weather conditions: if that night is clear, so will the path that will unite them. But if that night rains, the flood of the Celestial River will keep the magpies from forming the bridge. The rain of that night is sadder than those of the other nights and therefore is called the rain of tears.

Taken on: August 23, 2017

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