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Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 463In this 463rd issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Nepalese fairy tale - "The Talking Turtle".ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago at the foot of the Himalayan mountains, there was a king who talked too much. His name was Badahur, and from his beautiful palace, high in the mountains, he ruled many millions of people.There was also a turtle who was even fonder of talking than the King, and he lived in a pond in the King's garden.But for all the King was so great and so rich, his people did not respect him because he talked and talked about everything under the sun.The King had a of prime-minister whose name was Hazar, and he was expected to say foolish things, of course, but the King seemed to want to say them all. When the King drove through the streets in his golden chariot with footmen running before and behind, even the beggars by the roadside would say, "There goes one who cannot hold his tongue."But the turtle was even worse than the King in the matter of talking. He talked to the fishes, the parrots, the monkeys, and the birds all day long, until they were tired of the very sound of his voice.The turtle was envious of the ducks and birds who flew to and from the pond. He pestered the ducks so much that the ducks eventually agreed to hold a stick between them which the turtle would hold onto with his mouth. After a few practice runs they took off.Well, what happened next you ask…? How far did he go? Did he ever get to see the faraway places which the ducks flew to? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.In looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this, it is our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/hRYz7L10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Nepal, Baba Indaba, Children's stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, , angry, Badahur, beautiful, beggars, business, carry, Cave, chariot, children, control, counsellor, courtiers, courtyard, cranes, crash, despise, disaster, discretion, Drop, ducks, enemies, fall, finish, fish, flew, fly, foolish, footmen, garden, Golden, Happy, Hazar, hiding-places, hold, humming-birds, King, kingdom, King-parrot, long, millions, Mirbah, mischief-maker, miserable, monkeys, mountains, mouth, palace, parrots, pleasure, pond, Prime Minister, prime-minister, rivers, roadside, secrets, silent, Soup, speak, start, stick, subjects, summer, sun, talk, talkative, talkativeness, tongue, turtle, villages, watch, wild, wish, Your Majesty, Himalayas

Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 464In this 464th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Maori Legend - "Tiki – The Ancestor or Mankind".ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago at the beginning of time, when Rangi-nui, the great Heaven, and Papa-tu-a-nuku, the far-stretching earth, were separated from each other, then the light shone over Papa-tu-a-nuku, the mother of Tiki, and he was the first man.Great was his longing for the power to spread himself out over Papa: father of mankind he wanted to be! Far, and far, and far he wandered over Hawaiki, searching and asking, and again and again he wandered forth over all Hawaiki, his heart full of longing.At last he came to the river at Hawaiki known by the name of Wai-matu-hirangi, and from the depth of his desire he cried aloud: 'Oh, daughter of Hawaiki, child of the murmuring water, tell me how I may become the father of mankind. Tell me where may I obtain the power and from whom?'And the river Wai-matu-hirangi answered him…..Well, what happened next you ask…? What did Wai-matu-hirangi  say to Tiki? What did he have to do to achieve his dreams? Did he ever succeed? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.In looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this, it is our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/hRYz7L10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Aotearoa, New Zealand, Tiki, Father of man, Rangi-nui, the great Heaven, Papa-tu-a-nuku, Daughter of Heaven, Te marama, moon, new life, Spring of Living Water, Hine-nui-te-po, the Great Mother of Nature, Hawaiki, action, quest, achieve, Wai-matu-hirangi, call out, son of Heaven and Earth, incantations, powerful, Karakias, search, the Seeker, ecstasies, Daughter of the Many Faces, Shimmering Heat, echo, Marikoriko, Twilight, first woman, Hine-kau-ata-ata, Floating Shadow, the Earth, Te-a-io-whaka-tangata, Maru, evil god, anger, wrath, Rangi, star, Rauriki, Maui, whare-puni, whānau, whanau, Ngawai, pawa-shell, paua, abalone, tattoo, ancestor, kina, maomao

Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 465In this 465th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Maori Legend - "The Creation of Hawaiki".NOTE: In Māori mythology Hawaiki is the place where Io, the supreme being, created the world and its first people. It is the place from which each person comes, and it is where each will return after death.ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago at the beginning of time was I-o, the great atua, the god-power, and the world was filled by Te-po-nui, the Great Darkness. Te-po-nui filled all the space, from the first space to the hundredth, to the thousandth space.Then it was that the Atua commenced his great song of creation, and out of the Darkness sprang forth Life!And out of the Darkness sprang forth Hine-nui-te-po! Then out of the same Darkness sprang forth Te Ao, the Light!Then Te-Ao gave birth to Rangi! Rangi-nui, the great Heaven.And again sang the atua his great song of creation, and out of Te-po-nui sprang forth Tangaroa, the God of the Oceans!And again, out of Te-po-nui sprang forth Papa-tu-a-nuku, the far-stretching Earth.—The Earth, and Rangi, the Heaven were created!Rangi took Hine-nui-te-po for his wife, and their son was Ha-nui-o-rangi, the Great Breath of Heaven. And Ha-nui-o-rangi commenced his great movement, and forth sprang Tawhiri-matea, the father of the winds. And again Ha-nui-o-rangi commenced his great movement, and Te-ata-tuhi sprang forth, the First Glimmer of Light.Great now was Rangi's power, Rangi, the Creator! His eyes beheld with admiration Papa-tu-a-nuku, the far-stretching earth, shining forth out of the Darkness, and she was of great beauty. And Rangi made her his wife that together they might create Hawaiki, and their first son was Rehua.What did Rangi and Papa-tu-a-nuku he have to do to create Hawaiki, the ancestral home of the Maori. Well, Did they succeed?  To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.In looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this, it is our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/hRYz7L10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children's stories, Children's Books, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Tiki, Father of man, Rangi-nui, the great Heaven, Papa-tu-a-nuku, Daughter of Heaven, Te marama, moon, new life, Spring of Living Water, Hine-nui-te-po, the Great Mother of Nature, Hawaiki, action, quest, achieve, Wai-matu-hirangi, call out, son of Heaven and Earth, incantations, powerful, Karakias, search, the Seeker, ecstasies, Daughter of the Many Faces, Shimmering Heat, echo, Marikoriko, Twilight, first woman, Hine-kau-ata-ata, Floating Shadow, the Earth, Te-a-io-whaka-tangata, Maru, evil god, anger, wrath, Rangi, star, Rauriki, Maui, whare-puni, whānau, whanau, Ngawai, pawa-shell, paua, abalone, tattoo, ancestor, kina, maomao, fairy tales for kids, around the world, nursery rhymes, fairy tales story, fairy tales book, short fairy tales

Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 467In this 467th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates a Maori Legend - "The Battle of the Giants".Once, there was a spirit who wandered along the path that leads to gladden the heart of man; and her name was Ngawai (pronounced Nah-wai). This is her story…..Once the volcanoes Taranaki, Ruapehu, and Tongariro dwelled together. That was the time when Tongariro in her wonderful beauty had captured the fiery hearts of the two giants, so that their joy filled the heavens with majestic outbursts and covered the earth with their dark-glowing heart-blood of fiery lava and molten stones.The snows of the winter and the suns of the summer came and went from the first time, to the hundredth time, to the thousandth time, and still Tongariro was undecided whom she would prefer for a husband - the straight and simple Taranaki and the rugged and strong Ruapehu.Tongariro roused the passions of the giants: she made the volcanoes tremble! Their blood of fire and boiling stones shook them, the thundering of their voices, roaring insults at each other, made the earth tremble. Streams of lightning pierced the nights, and black smoke of deadly hate darkened the days, and the ears of man were filled with the roaring hate of the giants, and their wondering eyes beheld the beauty of Tongariro, smiling at both! At last the two rivals decided to fight for Tongariro!What happened next? Who won the right to marry Tongariro – Taranaki or Ruapehu? What happened to the lands surrounding them and how did this affect the Maori people? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.It is our hope that in looking up these place names, using Google Maps, that young people will be able to see images and read about other peoples and cultures from around the world. Through this activity, it is also our hope that young people will not only increase their world geography but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures. BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/hRYz7L10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children's stories, Children's Books, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, Aotearoa, New Zealand, fairy tales for kids, around the world, nursery rhymes, fairy tales story, fairy tales book, short fairy tales, answer, Beautiful, beauty, black, boiling, break, broken, burn, burst, capture, cloud-piercing, cone, conqueror, cover, deep, earth, endless, enemy, fiery, fight, fill, fire, fires, friend, generations, giants, gold-bordered, golden, grim, hate, hearts, heavens, highest, howl, husband, Incantations, inside, lake, loud, love, magnificence, majestic, Maori, melt, melting, molten, mountain, mountain-world, mouth, new-born, Ngawai, pain, passion, glowing, path, Patupaiarehe, people, rage, roaring, rolling, rose, Ruapehu, sea, shook, silence, silent, silver-white, snow, steam, steam-column, stones, stone-wilderness, stood, straight, strength, sun, swallow, swaying, Taranaki, Te-marama, terrible, thunder, Tongariro, Tongariro, tremble, volcanoes, wander, water, wonderful, world

Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 455In this 455th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Maori legend of "The Creation of the Stars".ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away in the land of Aotearoa – the Land of the Long White Cloud, Te Ra, the day-eye of Rangi was closing, and sending a last glowing look over the peacefully dreaming Moana-rarapa - the Lake of the Glittering Water.Tane looked up to the heavens and said, "O, father Rangi, my heart is looking upon you in sorrow, for you are lonely and cold, and I will go in quest for adornments which shall make you beautiful to the eyes of Papa and her children."And so began the wanderings of Tane……..What happened next you ask…? Well it happened as it has been written. But where did the go and where did he end up. What adornments did he find, if any at all? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/LXNM10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children's stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, Maori, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Land, long white cloud, Tane, ancestors, Aotea, , adornment, beauty, children, Cliff, darkness, Daughter, dream thoughts, earth, father, Gate, glittering, heart, heaven, Hine-a-te-ao, indescribable, journeys, Mahiku-rangi, Mahiku-Rangi, Moana-rarapa, night, Papa, Rangi, red, sacred, shimmering, stars, stars, Tama-re-reti, Tane, Te-pae-tai-o-te-rangi, Te-waka-a-tama-rereti, Tupu, Tupu-renga-o-te-Po, wandering, Water

Abstract: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 456In this 456th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Zulu Legend "The Boy Chaka Prophesises".ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, in KwaZulu – which means the Home of the Zulu, an old story teller named Zweete, also known as Mopo, and with doctor retold the story of when he first met the boy Chaka, who was later to become the most powerful of all the Zulu Kings.Mopo was born of the Langeni tribe, which means People of the Sun. This was time before the Zulus were a people, one evening, when I was still little, standing as high as a man's elbow only, I went out with my mother below the cattle kraal (enclosure) to see the cows driven in. My mother was very fond of these cows, and there was one with a white face that would follow her about. She carried my little sister Baleka riding on her hip; Baleka was a baby then. We walked till we met the lads driving in the cows.Presently we saw a woman walking towards us across the plain. She walked like one who is tired. On her back was a bundle of mats, and she led by the hand a boy of about my own age, but bigger and stronger than I was. We waited a long while, till at last the woman came up to us and sank down on the veldt (plain), for she was very weary. We saw by the way her hair was dressed that she was not of our tribe.After greeting each other, my mother asked, "How are you named?—and what is your people?" asked my mother."My name is Unandi: I am the wife of Senzangacona, of the Zulu tribe," said the stranger.Now there had been war between our people and the Zulu people, and Senzangacona had killed some of our warriors and taken many of our cattle. So, when my mother heard the speech of Unandi she sprang up in anger."You dare to come here and ask me for food and shelter, wife of a dog of a Zulu!" she cried; "begone, or I will call the girls to whip you out of our country."But then the boy spoke with vehemence that belied his size.What did he say and what  happened next you ask…? Well it happened as it has been written. But where did the go and where did they end up. To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIESBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN'S STORIES at https://goo.gl/LXNM10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.=========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children's stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, , assegai, Baleka, beautiful, blood, bones, cattle, Chaka, children, cow, cows, died, Dingaan, evil, father, gave, Ghost, gourd, grass, heart, Impi, king, kraal, Langeni, Mopo, Mountain, Nada, regiment, run, Shaka, Senzangacona, Spear, Sun People, Tshaka, travel, Umslopogaas, Unandi, veldt, vultures, water, white-faced, wife, world, Zulu, general