Vanua Vonu The Fabulous Tales of the Green Gorilla & the Almost-White Panda E-Book

Momo Pete

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 51

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The book describes the friendship between the Green Groilla and The Almost White panda, who are on a pilgrimage to the place "Vanua Vonu" where the wise sea turtle "Da-Oh!" lives. The path takes them through a fascinating wilderness and to unique places in nature, which the friends use to take a well-deserved rest and to tell each other stories of expectations, disappointments and wisdom. The green gorilla shows great determination and seriousness during their journey, while the almost white panda lets itself drift, spontaneously grasps the situation and of course is always interested in a good meal.

Leseprobe

Vanua Vonu

The Fabulous Tales

of

the Green Gorilla & the Almost-White Panda

momo pete

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Text © 2021 Momo Pete

Cover design © 2021 Momo Pete

Editing: Matilda Abram

Cover and illustrations: Ciryl Aklan

Cover design: Bernhard Kratz

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German to English Translation

Erna Berendsen

The fable begins in front of an oval bamboo hut, at the foot of an elongated rock wall. It lies a good twenty meters from the beach, in the thicket of an evergreen forest, stretching upward from the coast to the cliffs. Surrounded by ancient mahogany trees, a huge banyan tree reaches far and wide into the sky on a gigantic boulder - towering over everything. Enveloped by more jungle-like, overgrown, giant boulders, the two friends sit on the first set of stony steps leading up to the old hut.

The sky-blue waters of the ocean shimmer through small openings in the evergreen wall of leaves, constantly crossed by a recurring white line - the reef, out in the vastness of the sea, which has surrounded the coast for aeons and against which the waves break, foaming with snow-white spray.

As this still-unwritten fable of the two friends’ adventures comes to life, the overgrown, rocky path that leads from the steps of the old hut will travel with us to the heart of the story. Through a fabulous forest spanning wide ridges, the gnarled, green, millennia-old path turns out to be a twisted thread of pure mulberry silk that slowly unwinds and uncoils, weaving this narrative, fashioning new patterns and bringing them to luminous expression - from step to step, from rock to rock, from bamboo shoot tofu sausage to bamboo shoot tofu sausage.

But we’ve a way to go until then.

Our friends are finally on the road again. Actually, they are always on the move, even though at this very moment they are sitting on the steps in thoughtless silence, serenely looking out at the blue sea with the white waves breaking on the reef. Together, they have walked countless paths of life: crossed gorges, passed through gates, steered ships, built bridges, erected pillars, brought good tidings to distant lands, dwelt in caves, soared in the air, found palaces, slept in temples, entangled themselves in bold adventures of love - but always trusting in the blessing and guiding thread of Vanua Vonu and the perfect wisdom of the sea turtle, Da - Oh!

As always, the Green Gorilla carries his absolute favourite ‘Hanuman’ banana leaf backpack. It is dyed red with Kumkum and filled with plenty of provisions and uncountable stories. He holds a machete in his right hand to fight his way free if necessary.  The Panda, as ever, has thought of nothing at all; has neither feared nor foreseen anything. He has simply placed himself in the deepest trust at the side of his determined companion and put the coming days into the furry, wizened hands of his eternal heart-friend.  The most important thing for the ever and un-meditated, somersaulting Panda is that there will always be something to eat, which the Panda will shove into his cheeks during the story - as part of the story and as the story itself, with glowing pleasure and in honest excitement.

They will begin their pilgrimage today, setting out for a fabled place where the wisest of wise sea turtles had spent his days. Unsurprisingly, they had already visited this place in a past life (before and during the actual lifetime of the wise sea turtle), and the Green Gorilla had received a great lesson that he had archived in his overflowing life book under the chapter ‘The Golden Coconut Shell.’

So, at least the Green Gorilla could still accurately remember events from lifetimes past.

The Almost-White Panda knew the stories too, of course, but had always forgotten them for the sake of suspense. He could hear stories ten thousand times and practically never get fed up with them.

Ten hours of listening, from the bamboo chair to the hammock, from the hammock back to the bamboo chair, while the Gorilla shimmies tirelessly from page to page, from line to line through the world of magical creatures and sea horses gone wild - no thing! Therefore, the Almost-White Panda knew the contents of many thick tomes and short stories by heart. Should even a tiny detail be missing, the Almost-White Panda would immediately  and mercilessly correct the Green Gorilla, before insistently saying ‘Next!’

The stories about the wise sea turtle with the fabulous name Da-Oh! were his favourite tales, because they naturally involved food, coconuts, palaces, mandalas, dancing, manta rays, dolphins, unicorns and delicious ice cream.

‘Tell me Babaji,’ as the Almost-White Panda always called his friend, ‘how does the story go again with Vanua Vonu and the golden coconut shell?’

The Green Gorilla crinkles his brow as he smirks, eyes sparkling. Panda is Panda, that’s for sure!

They haven't hiked even a meter, still sitting comfortably on the old steps. He gazes meaningfully and laughingly at his perfectly innocent-looking, almost-white friend.

‘You know, an extraordinary story requires an extraordinary place in which to tell it. An old staircase barely the width of a buttock is not nearly good enough,’ the Green Gorilla replies calmly.

Said, done.

‘Yes, yes, all right,’ sighs the Almost-White Panda in his entirely innocent, Panda-like manner.