The youngest fairy, Li, was already at Umwai River when an angler, Loh Ryndi, was fishing and got a few fish to carry home and kept them on the mantle shelf. As luck would have it, he forgot to cook the fish and went to his daily work every day, while the fish was converted into a mermaid and she cleaned his house and cooked food regularly. Loh Ryndi was surprised and curious to know about it since he was living alone and hardly anybody would volunteer such a responsibility. One day, he pretended to be going to work and discretely came back to watch and found the mermaid while she was busy cleaning the house.
Loh Ryndi caught hold of her and she testified that he was christened to be the progenitor of the royal clan if he could fulfill certain conditions. The mermaid stayed with Loh Ryndi and sent him to his mother with instructions to clean the house, and to never keep the broom at the entrance for her visit. But her mother did not bother and did her work as instructed just to please him. The mermaid sensed that the house was not cleaned properly and the broom was kept in the cavity below the entrance. She refused to enter her house and warned Loh Ryndi of the consequences.
However, things did not change and Li declared that he was not destined to be the forebear of the royal clan and went back to Umwai river. Loh Ryndi was distressed and went fishing again with the hope of getting her again, but he never caught any fish whatsoever. Before she fled to Umwai, Li uttered a promising favour for him, but he was desperate and dug into the ground with his fishing rod upside-down and let it remain there. In that patch of land, an inverted bamboo spouted out of that fishing rod of Loh Ryndi and he lost contact with the mermaid forever.
The mermaid later emerged at Waikhyrwi pool and was transformed into a poor girl with rashes on her body. The shepherds caught hold of the strange girl and handed her over to the village elder known as Doloi of Tyngker. The Doloi Tyngker, consulted with Doloi Nartiang and Doloi Nangbah to provide her with food and shelter, and, during that period, a coincidental drought occurred in the territory for three consecutive years. The little girl bargained with the elders that she could cause rain showers if they agreed to honour her as the royal ancestral mother in the territory.
The elders were compelled to agree because they did not have any other options, and the preparation of articles for the ceremony was thorough. She chanted prayers to the thunder deity and, soon after, there was torrential rainfall and the fields were flooded with water ready for plantation. After that, there was prosperity and the elders sought a suitable match for her marriage, but she refused. On the third offer, she agreed and gave specific instructions for her choice of the royal groom.
On a market day, they found only one person selling a bunch of sticks of a particular leaf called Lamet Latang. Lamet Latang is a kind of sacred leaf connected with the spiritual enlightenment of humans, which is customary for placing the sacrificial items during the performing of rituals. The man selling a bunch of stick leaves was captured and brought according to the preference of an adolescent damsel, Li or Li-Dakha.
The wishful thinking of the couple was found, because a man nicknamed Shitang, meaning a single stick, was none other than Harata himself, and from the wedlock, they bore three children. They were named Nga, Phyrngap and Lenem Koina, where Nga became the inhabitant of Sutnga, Phyrngap of Mawngap and Lenem Koina married a fairy, Serup Patcha, the prince of heaven.
The offspring of Nga became the royal descendants of Sutnga province, while the others were not known of their hereditary status. Li-Dakha facilitated uniting the Doloi of twelve Elaka and established the Hima Sutnga with her eldest son as the first chieftain or Syiem, before she decided to return to Waikhyrwi River as the mermaid.
The eldest fairy, Pah, resides in an isolated cave on the outskirts of Nongkrem village, known as Krem Marai cave. There was chaos in the areas surrounding Nongkrem among the village elders, belonging to the administrative council known as Sawkher Lailyngdoh. Saw-Kher refers to four nobles and Lai-Lyngdoh means three priests in the literal sense. In the province of Sawkher Lailyngdoh there was political turmoil, which was difficult to solve because one territory felt discriminated against by others on several aspects of administration.
The four nobles are those belonging to the Nongkseh, Nongumlong, Swer, and Synrem territories and the three priests are the clans of Nongkrem, Mylliem, and Nongbri. At a time of terrible consequences of political unrest, the shepherds noticed a fairy in the image of a strange young girl sitting on a rock near Marai cave. Whenever the shepherds approached her, she would disappear and hide in the Marai cave. Then the young shepherds went to inform the people in the village and some older people came to the spot, but she did the same and most of them came back, except for one person, Sati Mylliemngap.
When all the other people left, Sati Mylliemngap waited in the bushes, but she never came out anymore. His curiosity prompted him to come again the next morning and he saw from his hideout that she was drying her hair in the sunlight sitting on the rock. Gradually, he appeared before the young girl on the edge of the rock and she was dumbstruck and could not go back to the cave.
Sati Mylliemngap reacted with a pleasant gesture and the young girl was comfortable but would not tolerate his further advance by stretching his hand. After some time, he went around the area to pluck some flowers known as Jalyngkteng and Jalyngap and tie the bunch on a stick. Sati Mylliemngap enticed the fairy and the blooming flowers enchanted her. When she was about to catch the flowers, he suddenly grabbed her arm and expressed kindness, even as she struggled to escape. When she could anticipate that she was safe in his hands, she followed him peacefully to his house.
