ISSN 23979607 Issue 454 In this 454th issue of the Baba Indabas Childrens 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 mens 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 childrens 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 CHILDRENS STORIES at httpsgooglLXNM 10 of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities KEYWORDSTAGS Baba Indaba Childrens 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 stormcloud ainui Takitumu TaneMahuta Tangaroa tangi TawhiriMaTea threaten Tokomaru treasures Tumatauenga Turi tutua vision Waerau wanderings war warriors Weri Whales whare woods