I have made 5 short video clips with kapwing video trimmer to show 5 important stages in Shrek's hero's quest. Have fun watching them! :-)
Wednesday 23 June 2021
Tuesday 8 September 2020
tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa
In the beginning there was a robot, he was walking slowly and stumbling because he was very tired. The robot had been walking through the desert for many days, his head was aching and his body was made out of metal so it was burning hot from the sun. All around him was hot and sandy. The robot seemed to be lost, there were no signposts in the desert, just a few rocks and a lot of dusty brown sand. The robot was called Rob. He came from out of space with a giant space ship that traveled as fat as a rocket.
When he was wandering around the desert, he saw amongst the rocks and petrified tree trunks a small plant. He picked up the plant and looked around to see where he could take it. The plant was dry and needed water. Suddenly he saw the mountain. It was a giant of a mountain. He climbed up to the top but he fell because he ran out of energy. He tried again and made it. When Rob arrived at the top of the mountain, he had no more strength and died. As he hit the ground, his robot hand dropped the plant next to him.
It was a miracle but the plant grew into a tree. It grew because of the sun and the rain. There was a leaf dancing through the sky and settling on Rob’s chest, which meant the weather had changed. There was hope for the planet.
By Epi Delai
Thursday 20 August 2020
The Fijian creation myth
Fijian version...
English version...
The Serpent God plays an important role in many religions and myths from all over the World. However, most of the times its role is identified with that of Evil, even if the common denominator of the Serpent God is that he wants humans to get knowledge (such as the example of the Serpent in the Garden of Eden in Christian religions).
In the mythology of Fiji Island, in one of the more popular creation stories, the Serpent God is not only an important God but the first and ever living god that created the first humans. His name is the Great Serpent Degei, the supreme God. He is believed to be the creator of the Fiji islands and all men related to the islands. He is the one that judges the souls when they die and decides where they move onto in the afterlife.
According to the legend, in the beginning it was only water and twilight everywhere and only an island existed, the island of the Gods which floated somewhere at the edge of the world and could be visible during sunrise. Degei was alone and the only living creature was the female hawk named Turukawa.
Turukawa couldn’t speak and the only thing she would do was to fly around Earth, until she started gathering leaves and grass creating a nest and finally two eggs were created. The great God Degei took the two eggs to his house where he made a bed for them and kept them warm with his body. When the eggs hatched, two tiny human beings came out, they were his children.
Once the first humans were born, they were transferred to a vesi tree where Degei built a shelter for them, fed them and taught them the secrets of nature. But he kept his children separate. He planted trees around them so they could find food, trees like banana trees, dalo and yams. However, humans could only eat from the banana tree and not dalo (or taro) and yams (like sweet potatoes), because they didn’t know the art of fire and the fruits of those trees couldn’t be eaten raw. Dalo and yams were the food of the gods.
When the first humans grew up they met each other and asked Degei to show them how to harness the power of the fire and how to eat the food of the Gods, and so Degei taught them. And it was after a while that the first humans left Degei and went to live on their own and had their first children. Degei wasn’t upset since he knew that his children and their children would worship him as their God.
According to the legend, the first village that Degei landed on was Lautoka where he established the village of Viseisei. It is interesting to note that Fiji has no snakes, so the concept of the snake God Degei not only is strange, but his story is very similar to Hindu mythology and the snake Kaliya, but while Degei is a good God, Kaliya is presented as a bad Serpent.
Fijian myths are interesting because they are one of the few that represent the Serpent God as a good God and not associated with evil. However, carefully studying mythologies and religions from all over the World, we can easily identify that that was the case with all Serpent Gods, but for many reasons, their role was twisted to that of an evil one.
My 34 word summary of the myth...
The Serpent God Degei was alone. The female Hawk Turukawa couldnt speak but she laid two eggs. Degei took them and kept them safe until they hatched. Two human beings came out they were his children. Deigi planted trees to separate his children and he taught them about the forest. The trees grew bananas, dalo and yams but Deigis children didn't know how to set fires to cook the dalo and yams. When they are older they met and ask Deigi to teach them how to use fire to cook. They worship Deigi as their God and yams and dalo are called 'the food of the gods!'
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Wednesday 12 August 2020
Hercules
The greek myth I was to write is about Hercules(born,father=Zeus mother Alcmena.
Hera tried to kill baby Hercules because she was jealous. Hercules was strong like his father Zeus so Hera did not succeed. They send him to earth to protect him. He grows up brave, strong, and kind. He got married to Megara and they had three sons.
Heras put a spell on Hercules making Hercules to kill his family, his son and his wife. Hercules felt bad after killing his family he locked himself away and asked the gods for help. Hercules becomes the sleeve of gods. Hercules got 12 Labours and he has to complete all the task. His first task is to kill the lion of Nemea. The lion of Nemea has a magical skin. After Hercules killed the lion of Nemea he wore the lion's skin to keep him safe at all time. The second task for Hercules to do is to kill the many headed water snake. Hercules can not kill the many headed water snake on his own so he called his nephew to help him together they came up with the brilliant plan. together they kill the many headed water snake. Hercules third task is to capture the golden hind alive.Hercules shot the golden hind on his leg so the golden hind can't run. Hercules brought the golden hind to the king.The king want's to keep the golden hind but Hercules did not give it to the king. Hercules told the king if he want's the golden hind he is going to catch it him self.If you want to know the rest of the tasks that Hercules does you have to read the story yourself.
Thursday 15 November 2018
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