Soyuzmultfilm
This film is based on myths of the ancient Peruvians
recreated by the Soviet anthropologist Yu. Beryozkin,
using the drawings of the Mochica Indians themselves.
THE LEGENDS OF PERUVIAN INDIANS
written by M. Rodionov Consultant Yu. Beryozkin V. Valutskiy text writer
Directed by Vladimir Pekar art director Tatyana Kolusheva
Eduard Artemyev music Ensemble "Boomerang" Yu. Bogdanova
cameraman Kabul Rasulov sound Boris Filchikov script editor Natalia Abramova
artists Marina Rogova, Youry Batanin, T. Fadeyev, Alexander Gorlenko, V. Zakharov, Violetta Kolesnikova, Anatoly Abarenov
assistants T. Lytko, S. Gviniashvili, V. Gilyarova, L. Krutovskaya
montage Natalia Stepantseva text is read by Vladimir Basov production director Lyubov Butyrina
Subs by Eus, edited & corrected by Niffiwan
In the old days... or rather, 1500 years ago...
there lived, in the land of Peru, a people who could neither read nor write
and perhaps we wouldn't know anything about the Indians of the Mochica tribe,
if not for these drawings.
Since ancient times art has represented life
people's perceptions of good and evil, of their past, present and future.
This is the way the old Peruvians used to imagine the world...
On the higher plane dwell the mighty gods
On the lower plane, the mortal people...
And who are these? Demigods, magical heroes of magical legends.
It was them that the Mochicans most liked to draw.
Who are they? Twin brothers, half human, half jaguar.
Their mother gave them their human side...
while their father gave them courage and sharp canines.
They were raised by a frog who was very kind and wise.
Thus begins the story of their lives and deeds.
When the brothers grew up, the frog sent them into the human world
...and with them, a basket filled with wondrous seeds.
Before the arrival of the twins
people on the Earth did not know of corn, or pepper, or beans, or peanuts.
The emissaries of the Good Frog brought to land of the Mochica bounty, prosperity and joy.
Out of envy, the monsters of the land then attacked the Mochica...
THIS monster the Indians still to this day call the terrible beast Recuay.
Only the terrible beast Recuay miraculously escaped the brothers
and hid on the moon.
But here is another menace creeping from the bosom of the sea.
Following the land monsters, sea monsters decided to attack the brothers.
All the monsters of land and sea were defeated.
The times of fear and weakness were over.
The brothers returned peace, joy and happiness to the people.
The inhabitants of the sky, from their high place above the clouds,
would sometimes look down upon the sinful Earth, to see how the people were doing.
That's why they live in heaven, to know that enjoyment is not forever
happiness is temporary and human life is a chain of eternal suffering.
So what happened after peace began to reign in the land of the Moche?
After spending much time on the moon,
the terrible beast Recuay decided that it was time to get back at the earth people
and kill the brothers, as well.
One day,
when the older brother was away ...
Recuay sent a wily centipede to the younger...
"The ungrateful people...
"...have forgotten you, their saviours..."
'Will you not go to avenge yourself on them?"
"Come with me and I will show you how."
The wily centipede led the younger brother to a wicked witch.
"Give the people one more present," said the witch...
"Give them weapons, and they will repent for centuries for their ingratitude."
And the younger brother believed what the wily witch said...
Until then, the Mochica had no weapons of war.
Now each believed that he was invincible and all-powerful.
But the weapons were magical.
Knowing their own mighty power, could they agree to be servants?
Oh no...
"We are all-powerful even without people," the things decided,
...and at a sign from the witch, they refused to obey the people.
"Oh, mighty gods...!"
acclaimed the big brother to the heavens,
"Look from above. Why have the people been punished so cruelly?"
Then the highest deity decided to descend to earth to put everything in order.
And the weapons that had considered themselves the equals of humans
were transformed by the gods into dust and shards.
The witch was thrown by the gods into a bottomless void.
The beast Recuay hid again on the moon, which explains the spots on the moon.
The younger brother, for heeding the intriques of the Recuay beast
and almost wiping out humanity, was forced to hold up the celestial vault,
Also, they lifted the sky up higher - let the world of people be more spacious!
The gods, after lifting the sky, no longer go down to earth.
Demons and monsters no longer threaten people,
and people have returned to peaceful work.
But there are those who are haunted by the memory of the wicked witch's gift...
they think that if they gather all the magical weapon shards and make clubs and helmets from them,
it will be possible to conquer the whole world.
The older brother decided to leave the world of people forever,
but the Peruvian Indians believe that he will return one day...
And then, peace and bounty will reign for long centuries.
That is the story told by the drawings of the ancient Peruvians.
Unfortunately,
nobody can say if the way we imagined it is correct.
Although,
do not the legends of all other peoples on Earth have the same elements?
Strength and weakness,
truth and falsehood,
evil and good,
and the eternal faith of the people
in the triumph of justice.
The End