[daikokunyo]

12 aurum

So like I went to this village-with-no-internet for a college field immersion (hence missing the recent event as though missing the one before it wasn't bad enough) and one of the villages we visited was Kokkarebellur. 'Kokkare' is painted stork in Kannada. Anyway, the village has a tradition of caring for and in modern terms conserving the cranes, storks and pelicans that migrate there for the winter, so I got to see a bunch of birds. The villagers said, like you know how married women go home for/right after delivering a baby? (In my culture anyway.) So since these birds lay and hatch eggs when they visit, they're thought of as the daughters of the village.