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November 2025 - Page 8

Rainbow Snake shaping rivers and valleys in an Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime scene.

The Rainbow Snake

November 5, 2025
In the time before time, when the world lay flat and dry beneath a silent sky, the earth had no rivers, no valleys, and no song of water. The land cracked beneath the sun’s heat, and the first people wandered in search of cool shade and food. Beneath that quiet
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A sepia-toned parchment illustration of the Fijian giant Rokomoutu standing atop misty mountains, raising his massive club as villagers flee below, symbolizing nature’s wrath and sacred balance.

The Legend of Rokomoutu

November 4, 2025
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In the time before memory, when the world was still young and the islands of Fiji rose green and mysterious from the turquoise sea, the Nakauvadra Mountains stood tall and proud on the island of Viti Levu. These were no ordinary peaks they pierced the clouds like the fingers of
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Sepia-toned parchment illustration of a wise sea turtle and a sleek stingray racing through coral reefs beneath clear Fijian waters, inspired by a Melanesian folktale.

The Turtle and the Stingray

November 4, 2025
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In the ancient days when the world was younger and the boundaries between creatures were not as they are now, the sea creatures possessed the gift of speech. They conversed in the language of waves and currents, their voices rising and falling with the tides. In those times, beneath the
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A sepia ink illustration of a sacred banyan tree glowing with spirit lights, as a Fijian boy and woman sit beneath it offering prayers on aged parchment background.

The Spirit Tree of Vanua Levu

November 4, 2025
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On the northern island of Vanua Levu, where the mountains rise green and misty from the sea and rivers run clear through valleys thick with tropical growth, there stood a village that had witnessed the passage of countless generations. The houses clustered together like a family gathering, their thatched roofs
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Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog

In the Dreamtime, when animals still spoke the first language, the land woke to find no water anywhere. Rivers were empty, the
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