1 episodes · 7 tales · 0.3 hours of listening. Season 101 of the KacheliTV library.
Tangaloa Makes the Land — Tangaloa makes the heavens and the earth, and sends his daughter down as the snipe Turi to search for land in the empty ocean. · The Gods Decide How Man Shall Die — the gods meet to settle the end of man's life, and a shower of rain breaks up the meeting at the deciding moment. · How Samoa Got Its Name — the rocks and the earth have a child, Moa, and everything that grows is made sacred to him: Sa ia Moa — Samoa. · When the Heavens Fell Down — of old the heavens fell, and people crawled; the plants, and then a thirsty traveller, push the sky back up. · When Everything Could Talk — the golden age when all things spoke and quarrelled: the stones fought the grass, the grass the trees, the trees the creepers. · The Rat Who Lent His Wings — the bat borrows the rat's wings and never brings them back; and why the bananas hang their heads while the plantain stands erect. · +1 more
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