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

The Rainbow Snake

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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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
2 A sepia parchment-style illustration of three Fijian maidens standing on a rocky sea cliff in Kadavu, singing a sacred chant as two giant sea turtles rise from the ocean below, symbolizing the transformed spirits of Tinaicoboga and her daughter Raudalice answering the ancient Namuana call.

The Sacred Turtles of Kadavu

On the island of Kadavu, where volcanic peaks rise green and lush from the Pacific Ocean and coral reefs shimmer beneath crystalline
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