A group of coal workers working in the vicinity of Sarastarri drew the necessary water from the existing well in the cave. One day a young coalman went to the cave to fetch water with his own pitcher; but he returned to the cabin scared and without any water.
Then, the chief of the coal workers went to the cave but also returned scared and without water in the jug. The two said the same thing: that at the entrance of the cave they had seen a beautiful and slender young girl combing her hair; it was Mother Earth herself, coming to Marimundu de Agaramunda, and that they had fled thinking that such a spectacle in a place like that was not good omen.