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THE COMING OF THE MAORI - A Legend of New Zealand - Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 454 - cover

THE COMING OF THE MAORI - A Legend of New Zealand - Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 454

Anon E. Mouse, Narrated by Baba Indaba

Publisher: Abela Publishing

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Summary

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 454
In this 454th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "The Coming of the Maori”.

ONCE, UPON A TIME, a long, long time ago and far, far away, the voice of lamentation and the noise of weeping were heard in Hawaiki; for men's hands were lifted up to slay their own kin: so that father slew son, and son smote father, and brother strove against brother, until nowhere in all that pleasant land was there peace. Wherefore, little children hid themselves for fear; and women, having cut their cheeks with sharks' teeth, and gashed their bosoms with sharp shells and pieces of tuhua, raised the tangi for the warriors who every day passed through the portals to the afterlife across the Waters of Reinga.

Then the Great Chief Ngahue called a council and it was decided that a portion of the population would launch a great canoe and commend themselves to the gods, they sailed wheresoever the god Atua chose to lead them.

What happened next you ask…? Well it happened as it has been written. But where did the go and where did they end up. To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!

INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE BABA INDABA STORIES

Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.

BUY ANY of the 450+ BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES at https://goo.gl/LXNM

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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KEYWORDS/TAGS: Baba Indaba, Children’s stories, Childrens, Folklore, Fairy, Folk, Tales, bedtime story, legends, storyteller, fables, moral tales, myths, happiness, laughter, Coming of the Maori, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Land, long white cloud, , ancestors, Aotea, Arawa, Atua, beautiful, birds, Brethren, brother, canoe, cast, Centipede, company, complain, council, Crab, diligent, earth, Earth, European, family, FAREWELL, father, fire, fished, fleet, forests, friends, gods, Great, Haumiatikitiki, Hawaiki, kahukura, Kapai, karaka, kinsmen, kumara, Kurahaupo, lament, land, light, man, Maori, Matatua, Matawhaorua, Maui, Mauitikitiki, MOA, moana, mountains, Ngahue, OBSIDIAN, ornament, Papa, POTATO, Pakeha, , prodigious, pukeko, Rangi, Rarotonga, Reinga, rivers, Rongomatane, sail, scattered, sea, set course, sharks, snowy peaks, son, Spirit, storm-cloud, ainui, Takitumu, Tane-Mahuta, Tangaroa, tangi, Tawhiri-Ma-Tea, threaten, Tokomaru, treasures, Tumatauenga, Turi, tutua, vision, Waerau, wanderings, war, warriors, Weri, Whales, whare, woods
Available since: 08/20/2018.

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