Welcome back from the holiday break, everyone! Since last week probably revolved around food, and may have featured some bickering, we’ve decided to give you the story of Souvan and Soutto this week.
The mighty dragons Souvan and Soutto lived in a huge lake, too distant to visit every day but close enough to be great friends. On one visit, Soutto brought Souvan elephant meat, and in return Souvan wanted to send a gift to Soutto. However, the hunting went poorly and Souvan only caught a porcupine, so he sent the porcupine meat along with some of its quills, which were very beautiful. Soutto was quite angry, for he felt that Souvan had cheated him. After all, an animal that produces hairs as long and quick as a porcupine’s quills must be an enormous creature! Souvan tried his best to explain the true size of porcupines, but Soutto would not admit to having never seen one and insisted he had been wronged. He brought an army of dragons against Souvan and his dragons, and their fight threw mud onto the land and eventually blocked out the sun. It only ended when the gods become so frustrated with the feuding dragons that they intervened, and punished them both by making them create rivers. Soutto made the Mekong River and Souvan created the Nan, and even though the dragons became friends again, the water from those rivers is said to remember the feud so that putting water from each river in the same bottle will crack or even shatter glass.
