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Kahausibware serpent legend

A sepia-toned folk-style illustration of Kahausibware, the great serpent mother of creation, winding across the barren islands of Makira as life begins to bloom around her palms rising from the earth, birds taking flight, and the sea shimmering with sacred light, symbolizing the birth of abundance and connection between land, ocean, and spirit.

Kahausibware: The Sacred Serpent

Before the first taro leaf rose green and unfurling toward the sun, before the sweet potato sent its runners through dark soil, before any growing thing broke the surface of the earth, there slithered across the emptiness a creature more ancient than memory itself. Her name was Kahausibware, and she was mother and maker, the great serpent from whose movements

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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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