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The sacred tree spreading islands across the ocean, Kiribati folktale scene.
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The Sacred Tree Kai n Tiku Aba

In the time before the world was divided by sea and land, there existed only a vast, endless space where light and water intertwined. From this eternal stillness emerged Na Atibu, the first divine being, whose body became the foundation of creation. Out of his chest rose a magnificent tree,
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 glowing riverbank symbolizing the creation of the first humans in Aboriginal Dreamtime tradition.

The First Man and Woman

November 3, 2025
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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Baiame teaching the first people near a river, Dreamtime story from Australia.

Baiame and Man

November 3, 2025
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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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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