Awakening - Folktale week 2021 Illustration

This illustration is based on a story told by The Kuttia Kondhs Tribe of Orissa ( Book ref - Tribal Myths of Orissa by Verrier Elwin).
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The Story-
Before Roosters were made, people had no means of knowing the time, when dawn was about to break when it was midday.
One day Paramugatti was lying in his house with his wife when Nirantali came in unexpectedly and they were very embarrassed. Paramugatti got up and wept, holding his head in his hands. Nirantali said to Paramagatti, Don't cry, go to the river, catch a frog and bring it to me.
Paramugatti got a frog and put it in a basket under his bed. The frog cried 'Kenr-kenr,-krr' half the night. When Paramugatti got up, he found the frog had laid an egg. He hit the frog and it hopped away to Nirantali and sat by her head crying 'Kenr-kenr-kr'.
Nirantali went to Paramugatti and said, 'I gave you that frog: why did you drive it away?' He said. It kept me awake with its kenr-kenr and laid an egg. Who knows what it is. Nirantali said, Tie up this egg with a broom and put it aside. After fifteen days chicks will be hatched out of it.'
Paramugatti tied up the egg and put it away. After fifteen days chicks came out and cried Kekerey-kenr. When the noise went into Paramugatti's ears, he got up. And This is how the first Rooster was born.