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- Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 242In this 242nd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Sumerian/Babylonian story of “The Giant of the Flood”The foundations of ancient Chaldea, were laid as long ago as 5000 B.C. and were as early as those of ancient Egypt. In fact they were the sister colonies with a common cultural heritage. The earliest civilized inhabitants were Sumerians and the land was full of city-states. As with all great cultures they had many myths and legends. One of their legends is about THE GIANT OF THE FLOOD, and the story goes thus….Just before the world was drowned all the animals gathered in front of the Ark and Father Noah carefully inspected them. Then he said to them "All you that enter and lie down shall be saved from the deluge that is about to destroy the world."Then the various creatures began to march forward into the Ark. Father Noah watched them closely. He seemed troubled and wondered where if the unicorn would make it.Og, a giant, not like by Noah offered to find it for him. But Noah turned down Og’s offer of assistance, considering Og to be one of the giants which were descended from Heaven’s fallen angels.Then the rain started to fall when the time came the unicorn had not appeared and Noah was forced to shut the door of the ark. Og went and sat atop a mountain to wait out the deluge.Did Og and the unicorn make it through the great flood? Well you’ll have to download the story to find out just what happened.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.33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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THE GIANT AND THE FLOOD
A Legend of Babylon & Sumeria
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
Published By
Abela Publishing, London
2017
THE GIANT AND THE FLOOD
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2016
Baba Indaba Children’s Stories
ISSN 2397-9607
Issue 224
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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 man who hailed from the small town called Darkhovin. Can you find Darkhovin on a map? What country is it in?
THE GIANT OF
THE GREAT FLOOD
A Legend of Babylon & Sumeria
about Noah and the Great Flood
A story, a story
Let it come, let it go
A story, a story
From long, long ago!
Umntwana Izwa! Children Listen!
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away there was a land called Chaldea. Now, the foundations of ancient Chaldea, were laid as long ago as 5000 B. C. and were as early as those of ancient Egypt. In fact they were the sister colonies with a common heritage. The earliest civilized inhabitants were Sumerians and the land was full of city-states.
The Sanskrit books of India, called Chaldea one of the divisions of Cusha-Dwipa1, and it had the first organized government of the world.
The Sumerians were the inventors of the cuneiform system of writing. The pictorial hieroglyphics which made the cuneiform characters were probably invented in Elam. In Babylonia however this culture underwent a rapid development. The northern division of Babylon was called Accad, which included Babylon itself, and the southern Sumer, included Erech and Ur. As with all great cultures they had many myths and legends. One of their legends is about The Giant of The Flood, and the story goes thus….
Just before the world was drowned all the animals gathered in front of the Ark and Father Noah carefully inspected them.
"All ye that lie down shall enter and be saved from the deluge that is about to destroy the world," he said. "Ye that stand cannot enter."
Then the various creatures began to march forward into the Ark. Father Noah watched them closely. He seemed troubled.
"I wonder," he said to himself, "how I shall obtain a unicorn, and how I shall get it into the Ark."
"I can bring thee a unicorn, Father Noah," he
heard in a voice of thunder, and turning round he saw the giant, Og.
