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The cover indicates "Raga Children Sept 76"; Side 1: Raga Children, Vila Sept 76 FS5/5135, 1 Sept 1976; Side 2: Blank
Raga children singing Raga songs.
Storytelling by Albert Niko Sau of North Pentecost who was born at Tangurua village in August 1915. The story is about a chief from North Pentecost named Lador and also known as Tamaragai.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who lived in a place called Labariri or today known as Abuntora. This woman had a pig fenced within stones close to her house. Every morning, she goes to feeds her pig then sometime later the pig became pregnant. When the pig gave birth, there were her piglets however there was one human included and was a boy. She went back to tell her family about the boy born from her pig. The family then agreed to get the boy and raise up at home. When he became an adult man, he became a high chief in North Pentecost. He then married to so many wives (maybe 50 they say).
If a particular infant child cried to be breastfed by her mother who is out in the hills (gardens), all the wives would stand in line and pass the child to her mother to be fed then after returned to the home passing again the baby through the wives.
The descendants and family line of chief Lador are in the generations of Pentecost people till today. These descendants today are priests, chiefs, teachers, businessman and including myself, so I am too a “bubu” in the family line and ancestry of chief Lador.
Albert continues to tell the story in Raga language (Hano) of North Pentecost.
Raga traditional singsing.
(Steven Gagau, April 2024) |
