The legend of the Humming Bird (Peruvian tale) - 01 It is said that many years ago, a terrible drought extended by the lands of Quechuas. The lichens and the moss reduced to dust, and early the bigger plants began to suffer by water shortage. The sky was completely clean, there wasn't either a little cloud, so the earth receives the sunshine without the comfort of a shadow patch. The rocks began to crack and the hot air push up the dust swirls here and there. If don't rains soon, all the plants and animals will die. In that starvation, only resisted tenaciously the qantu, a plant who needs a few of water to grow and bloom in the desert. But even she began to dry up. And it said that this plant, to feel that her life evaporated drop by drop,put all her energy in the last sapling who remains her.