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Fijian fables and folktales

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

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 crystalline waters surrounding the islands of Fiji, where coral gardens

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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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