Uma Lulik: Kai Leki

Iha rai -hae (rai-tetuk) Baucau nian iha bee-matan ida naran Au Baka (Aubaca). Bee-matan ne’e iha relasaun ho uma lulik ida naran Kai Leki (liafuan Waima’a nian ba “ai-laran Leki nian”). Husi bee-matan no uma ne’e mosu mai ai-knanoik ida ne’ebé ko'alia kona-ba ema ne’ebé mosu mai husi rai. Iha tempu ne’ebá, maun-alin nain tolu ne’ebé kaer metin karau ida nia kotuk mosu mai husi rai okos. Maun ida tuur besik liu karau nia ulun maibé alin sira kaer metin karaun nia dikur tanba ne’e sira mak sa'e uluk husi rai okos. Maun aseita katak alin sira sa'e uluk, nune’e nia fó dalan ba sira atu sa'e ba naroman no nia fila fali ba rai okos hamutuk ho karau. Molok nia fila ba rai okos, nia fó/entrega lisan ba nia alin sira atu tuir hodi moris di'ak iha rai naroman. Ikus mai nia haruka sira atu fila fali mai fatin hanesan iha loron tuirmai. Bainhira sira fila fali ba fatin hanesan iha loron tuirmai, sira hetan bee-matan ida mosu mai no iha bee laran, sira hetan oan feto ida namlele iha falun ne’ebé halo ho bili ida. Bebe ne’e nia naran Bui Bili. Bainhira oan feto ne’e boot, nia kaben ho maun boot (husi maun alin na'in rua ne’ebé hela iha rai naroman) ne’ebé naran Baka (Au Baka). Iha tempu ne’ebé hanesan alin tun husi rai -hae (rai-tetuk) to’o tasi ibun no kaben ho oan feto husi uma (kuda hare) Weu Ho’o iha knua Boile ne’ebé ohin loron iha Baucau klaran (sentral). 

At the edge of the savanna on the Baucau plateau at a spring called Au Baka (Aubaca) and its associated origin house Kai Leki (W: 'Leki's forest') comes a story of people emerging through water out of the ground. It is said that at a time in the distant past, three brothers emerged from the earth clinging to the back of a buffalo. The oldest brother was sitting closest to the head of the buffalo, but his younger siblings then scrambled to grab onto the buffalo's horns and hence they emerged first. The old brother conceded defeat, allowing his brothers to clamber into the light, he returned back underground into the darkness with his buffalo charge. Before doing so, however, he relayed to his younger siblings a range of strict prohibitions (lisan) with which they must abide to be able to live in the light earth. Lastly he told them to be sure to return to this same location the next morning. When they did so the next day, they found a spring had emerged from out of the ground and floating on the water asleep inside the leaves of a rootless lily (bili) was a baby girl who came to be known as Bui Bili. When this girl grew up, she married the older of the two brothers, whose name was Baka [Au Baka]. Meanwhile the youngest brother descended from the savanna to the marine terrace zone and married the daughter of the (rice growing) house of Weu Ho'o in the village of Boile, which today forms a part of central Baucau.