Why do your people have seasons?

[alexis_the_tiny]

Alexis, thank you so much. This is excellent. I'm looking up phrases like "indigenous weather folktales" but I'm not getting results like this. Is this from one of those areas where it never really gets cold? There's a rainy season and a dry season? Thank you!

Roxy

Roxy,

yep. Hereabouts, we get, well, hot and somewhat dry or hot and wet. The monsoon rains come twice a year. I'm not quite sure where it originated from but the line about the clearing of the waterways with a "changkol" sort of gives it away that it might be from around Malaysia or Singapore because that's a Malay word that's been mished into a Chinese dialect song. That sort of language mixing is quite typical around here.

I'm totally digging the stuff everyone's sharing on this thread, folklore and mythology are one of my favorite things.

Oh in case this is of any interest:
Dragon King of the East Sea - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_...f_the_East_Sea

Dragons in Chinese mythology, their roles were mainly to do with weather so no surprise the dragon king features in a song about rain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

Sorry about the links, I can't seem to get the link thingy to work here.