From the folklore of the Konda Dora
On Deomari Hill lived five Hommar brothers with their wives. They had not one child among them. One day they went to dig up ore from a pit and brought it back. Next day they put it in the still and worked at the hot iron until the whole day had passed. In the evening a girl was born from the still.
The Kommars instantly quenched the fire and the eldest brother took the baby to his house. When she grew up she used to work in the forge. When people came they all fell in love with her, for she was beautiful as fire. Her elder brother’s wife was jealous and cursed her, “When this girl marries, let her have to live apart from her husband and be without a man.”
Accordingly when the girl’s marriage was done and she was going to her husband’s house, wings sprouted from her shoulders and she flew into the sky. Her husband cursed her. “You left me; now may you never find a husband in the sky.” Her name was Mirsimena, without a husband; she is lightning.
In the sky, in Bajusai Raja’s garden, is a great tree with spreading branches that the girl lives in: when it rains and thunders the girl in fright runs to and fro and men can see her.
Source:
Chapter 5, Tribal Myths of Orissa, Verrier Elwin, 1954
Kotharian Lightning 