Overview of tens of thousands of fish plummeting to the ground.
Amazing Fish Rain Phenomenon: The Fish That Fall From The Sky Once Every Thousand Years In India
Sometime in the 1850s or 1860s, Spanish missionary Padre José Manuel Subirana visited Yoro , Honduras. After witnessing how mean and mean the locals were, he prayed for three days and three nights that God would provide them with food. Soon a dark cloud formed in the sky and, in response to his prayers, fish began to rain down from the sky and feed the city. This was the first recorded instance of the phenomenon of the rain of fish or Lluvia de peces, at least, that’s how the ɩeɡend works.
But according to modern Yoro residents , the fish rain is very real and continues to this day. Supposedly, small silver fish rain from the sky at least once a year in the months of May or June. But do these stories have scientific roots or more mythological ones?
Fish Rain RecordsYoro is one of the 18 departments of Honduras. The north-central region is mostly improved. It has fertile valleys and is widely known for producing grains. But Yoro is best known for its rain of eɡedated fish. The locals say that the fish rain occurs every year , sometimes more than once, at the end of spring. The “rain of fish” (ɩiteгаɩɩу, “rain of fish”) only happens after a strong and devastating storm, that is, when everyone is huddled inside. But when the storm passes, the villagers eagerly grab their baskets and head out into the streets where sardine-like fish have been scattered. Stranger still, those fish have been found to not even be indigenous to Yoro’s local waterways.
The villagers surmised that the fish must have come from nothing less than heaven in a miraculous spectacle of divine intervention. “It’s a mistake,” reported a local. “We see it as a blessing from God.” In fact, for many, it’s a blessing, as it’s the only time of year they can afford and eat fish. Poverty still prevails in the region. The families live in small adobe houses. For some, whose regular diet consists of corn, beans or other crops they have grown themselves, this is the only time of year when they can eat fresh seafood. For them, the Rain of Fishes is indeed a mystery. “It is a secret that only our Lord knows. It is a great blessing because it comes from our skies.”
