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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 467 In 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 STORIES Baba 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/hRYz7L 10% 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
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The Battle of the Giants
A Maori Legend
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
Published By
Abela Publishing, London
2018
THE BATTLE OF THE GIANTS
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Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 467
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An Introduction to Baba Indaba
Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.
In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.
In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.
In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him Baba Indaba – the Father of Stories.
When the British arrived in South Africa, he made it his job to also learn their stories. He did this by going to work at the docks at the Point in Port Natal at a place the Zulu people call Ethekwene (Eh-tek-weh-nee). Here he spoke to many sailors and ships captains. Captains of ships that sailed to the far reaches of the British Empire – Canada, Australia, India, Mauritius, the Caribbean and beyond.
He became so well known that ship’s crew would bring him a story every time they visited Port Natal. If they couldn’t, they would arrange to have someone bring it to him. This way his library of stories grew and grew until he was known far and wide as the keeper of stories – a true Wenxoxi Indaba of the world.
Baba Indaba believes the tale he is about to tell in this little book, and all the others he has learned, are the common property of Umntwana (Children) of every nation in the world - and so they are and have been ever since men and women began telling stories, thousands and thousands of years ago.
Location of KwaZulu-Natal (shaded in red)
Where in the World? Look it Up!
This next story was told to him by a traveller who was told it when he had traded at the port of Ngamotu (pronounced Nah-moh-tu). Can you find Ngamotu on a map? What is it’s Western name and what country is it in?
What the Baba Indaba Series is all about
As you have seen, each issue in the Baba Indaba Children’s Books has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section. Here 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 and easily be found using Google maps.
It is our hope that in presenting stories from around the world and by looking up the place names using Google Maps, that young people will see images of and read about other peoples and cultures from the four corners of our world.
Through this, it is our hope that young people will not only increase their understanding of world geography, but also increase their understanding and tolerance of other people and their cultures.
The Battle of the Giants
A Maori Legend
Umntwana Izwa! Children Listen!
A story, a story
Let it come, let it go
A story, a story
From long, long ago!
Umntwana, children, this is a story from a long, long time ago and far, far away, from an land made up of two large islands and many, many smaller islands. Unlike European nations, this country was settled in relatively recent times by the Melanesians, then the Polynesians and more recently Europeans.
This is a land without snakes, wolves and foxes. It is a long, narrow land formed by volcanic eruptions. To the West lies a sea the inhabitants call Te Tai-o-Rehua. North across the Mar Del Sur lies the Kermadec Islands and Fiji, and to the South lies the great Southern Ocean and Antarctica. To the West lies the expanse of the Mar Del Sur, also known as the Pacific Ocean.
The Maori people call this land Aotearoa, which means “The Land of the Long White Cloud”. Today we know this land as New Zealand.
Our story goes thus………
almness reigned over the world, and Ngawai’s murmurings died away in the silent night.
Incantations.
Yes, Ngawai, your story was beautiful, your story of Te-marama and Tihi, the warrior; but many hours has the night, and my mind wandered out to the Little Ones, the Patu-paiarehe, and they told me the spirit of Te-marama was not dead, but still wandered along the path that leads to gladden the heart of man; and her name was Ngawai.
But, Ngawai, look, the fire has burnt lower and lower, and no fresh wood has been put on the embers——but look, there, yonder! Look how the snow of the mountain is hailing joyfully the Morning Sun.
“Ah, too young is still the morning, my good friend, for the wanderings of man, rest and listen——”
