KAI KAI VILU AND TRENG TRENG VILU

A long time ago, in Mapuche territory, an enormous serpent rose up from the sea and began crying, kai, kai, kai, louder and louder. The serpent’s cries caused a great rain to fall. And the rains turned into a storm flooding all the earth.

 

To save themselves, the Mapuche people ran to the mountaintops. Just when they could ascend no more, they heard a voice coming from deep within the earth, calling, treng, treng, treng. It was the divine serpent came to help them. And thus began the battle between Kai Kai and Treng Treng. As Kai Kai cried louder and louder, Treng Treng caused the earth to shake, and it rose up higher and higher. Kai Kai sank back into the sea and disappeared forever.

 

And since that time, whenever the earth shakes and the sea floods the land, or when it rains too heavily and the rivers and lakes rise up, the Mapuches hear Kai Kai’s cry. Luckily, Treng Treng is on the watch, and before Kai Kai can harm the Mapuche people he stops Kai Kai’s cries with the strong sound of the earth rising up.