Elizabeth Fabowale

Elizabeth Fabowale

Goddess Meduu Ribtal teaching women to plant breadfruit and taro in Palau.

The Breadfruit Story

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November 5, 2025
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Long ago, when the islands of Palau were still new and the people depended only on what they could gather from the wild, a goddess descended from the heavens. Her name was Dirachedesbsungel, though many came to know her as Meduu Ribtal, the Lady of Breadfruit. She appeared from the mist that rose above the ocean, her hair like flowing
A glowing riverbank symbolizing the creation of the first humans in Aboriginal Dreamtime tradition.

The First Man and Woman

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In the long silence before time began, the world lay still beneath a dark sky. There was no voice, no song, no footstep upon the earth. The winds had not yet learned to move, and the rivers had not yet learned to flow. Only the great spirit ancestors drifted through
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A small creature carrying fire to humans, inspired by the Aboriginal Dreamtime story The Discovery of Fire.

The Discovery of Fire

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In the earliest days of the world, when the earth was still young and the trees whispered the names of the stars, humankind lived without fire. The nights were cold, and the people huddled together beneath animal skins, trembling as the wind swept across the plains. They ate their food
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Baiame teaching the first people near a river, Dreamtime story from Australia.

Baiame and Man

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After Baiame had shaped the mountains and the rivers, the plains and the forests, he looked upon the land and saw that it was alive but not yet wise. The trees stretched toward the sun, the birds called to one another in the wind, and the waters whispered over the
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