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Vanuatu creation story

A parchment-style illustration of Qat, the Great Maker from Vanuatu legend, beating a drum to awaken wooden figures into life on a red earth shore, with a glowing orange sun above the ocean and a dracaena tree nearby.

Qat and the Beginning of the World

In the time before time, when the world was young and unfinished, there was no laughter echoing across the valleys, no footprints pressed into the sand, no songs rising with the smoke of cooking fires. There were only three things: the vast blue sea that stretched to every horizon, the endless sky arching overhead like a dome of light, and

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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 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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