The Moon and Stars
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Scarcity of food in the land
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Father Anansi and his son, Kweku Tsin hunted for
food
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Son guarded the deer they hunted while he got a
basket to carry home
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After a while, father never came back
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A call called back and he thought it was his
father, it was a scary dragon
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Dragon found the deer and was disappointed
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Father finally returned
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Dragon carried both of them to a castle with
other creatures
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Feared him greatly
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Could detect a fly moving miles away
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A big white rooster watched over them while the
dragon searched for more
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Kweku scattered rice around the ground because
the rooster could be preoccupied with it
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Had people make ropes to make a ladder
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Threw it up to the heavens trusting the gods
would catch it
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Men ate all the cattle for energy
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Took the bones and procured the fiddle of the
dragon
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Dragon saw something was going on, tried to
climb the rope to catch them
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Kweku threw bones in his mouth everytime he got
close
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As he got the heavens, he sat and played the
fliddle and the dragon had to return to earth and dance
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Cut the ladder below his feet and the dragon
fell and he was pulled to the gods
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Kweku became the sun and light, his father the
moon, his friends the stars
How the Tortoise Got Its Shell
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Setting: few hundred years ago
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Chief Mauri was the God
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Yam festival on Friday
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Sent servants to buy livestock for food
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Mr. Klo was the tortoise and he was sent to buy
palm wine
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Directed to palm-fields of Koklovi (the chicken)
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Klo was fast and reached the destination fast
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Talked to Koklovi about the wine
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Couldn’t buy it with money, had to fight for it,
palm-trees and all
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Klo and Koklovi fought and Klo finally won
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More wine than the pot could hold, so Klo drank
the rest
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Drank so much, he felt tired and slow, rain came
and it was hard to travel
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Got to master’s palace and the gates were shut
and locked already, too late
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Rained for 2 months and no one left because of
the weather
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In that time, Klo died because of his load and
laid at the gate with the trees
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Dug to the bottom of the pile and found Klo with
a hard cover on his back from the dust
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Wonderful medicines in the palace restored him
but could never stand up right.
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Creeping creature with a shell
The Hunter and the Tortoise
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A hunter heard singing in the forest one day
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Singing a song “it is a man who forces himself
on things, not things which force themselves on him.”
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Tortoise was singing with a little harp
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He returned to see her sing then convinced her
to let him carry her on his back to his hut.
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Agreed but could only sing to him alone
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Told the secret of the tortoise to many then
reached the ears of the chief
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People refused to believe him
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He agreed to bring her and if she didn’t sing
then they could kill him
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If the tortoise did then he could punish them in
any way
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Next day, carried the tortoise for everyone to
listen
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She didn’t sing
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Night came and still no song.
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He was beheaded then the tortoise spoke
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The people were troubled because he was telling
the truth but they killed him
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Tortoise said he brought it to himself because
he didn’t keep the secret
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Then she sang the song again
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“it is man who forces himself on things, not
things which force themselves on him”
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