The Beauty Origin of Quinoa

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According to legend, a long time ago, Aymara (Aymara ancestors were the creators of the Inca civilization) can talk with the stars, from the beginning of history, they live in the Titicaca Lake. Potatoes are the only time they depend on subsistence foods, but found that someone stole Chenhei their potatoes at night. So they arranged for a young boy in the family to guard the land. One evening, the young man is touring, suddenly found a few beautiful young girl appeared in the ground, while they play, while digging potatoes. The young man was surprised, it rang a hand bell to Fangzei, frightened girls flew away, but one girl tripped and fell, the young man grabbed her past. When she asked the young man came from, why they steal potatoes when the girl told him: She is the fairy from the stars, because Aymara people can talk to the stars, so they came here, but she must go back before dawn, otherwise you will be punished ...... that night, the two of them talked for a long time, the young man with the fairy alternate love, but soon bright day, the young man with fairy reluctant farewell before leaving, telling fairy boy - if miss she can find the peak of the Andes Condor took him to her. Having fairy becomes a bird flew away, back to the stars where she lived. Glum young man went home and told all Serbs night what happened, but we do not believe what he said. After some days, the young man decided to go look for fairies, so he bid farewell to his family, to climb the peak of the Andes, after untold hardships, finally found the Condor, he flew with stars in fairies live. Fairy saw the young man very happy, they live together, and to give him to eat quinoa. And a few years later, the young man missing parents and family, you want to return to Earth, fairies put the quinoa seeds presented to him, and to tell the young man planting method. After the young man back to Earth, so the tribe grow quinoa, since then, quinoa became the staple food of the Andean people....