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Kiribati hero Tereitaki sailing through stormy seas guided by ancestral spirits in a Micronesian folktale.

Tereitaki the Ocean Hero

Long ago, on one of the coral atolls of Kiribati, the people faced a great famine. The sea, which once provided fish in plenty, had become silent and empty. The nets came up bare, and the children’s laughter faded into hunger. The elders said the ocean spirits were angry, but no one knew how to appease them. In the village

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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
1 A sepia parchment-style illustration of the Fijian chief’s daughter fleeing barefoot through a mist-covered cloud forest on Taveuni Island, her torn wedding garments trailing behind her as she escapes an arranged marriage, symbolizing the sorrow that would give rise to the sacred Tagimoucia flower.

The Tagimoucia Flower

High on the mist-shrouded slopes of Taveuni, Fiji’s Garden Island, where cloud forests cling to volcanic peaks and crystalline lakes reflect the
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