Friday, December 12, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
More myth story-telling from Room 10
Legend of the dragon- by Zane Boden
Legend has it there was once no wind or other elements, just fire breathing volcanos and hard molten rock. But deep down in an extinct volcano lay one egg, passed down from the gods and watched over by Dexter, a demigod who took the form of a dragon.
One day the egg cracked and out came a baby dragon. Dexter was meant to teach him in the way of the gods, but instead he saw Dexter get struck by lightning and then turn to stone.
The small dragon could breath fire but he didn't know what to use it for, as there was no-one to instruct him, so he started to play with it. The volcano he was in was the perfect place to practice, and he got better at playing with fire. But he became bored because he was a boy dragon and wanted to set things alight.
He came up with a cunning plan. As his wings were now huge he thought if he flapped them really fast he could blow out the fires of the other volcanoes. He tried his hardest and soon he had done it. The light on earth faded to the bottom, and he did that to every volcano and sent wind throughout the lands. The fresh air helped the plants and trees grow. He liked his new life.
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How the devil came to be- Autumn Bates
Long, long, ago there was a world above The Earth which was run by the gods of the golden gates. Nathaniel was the youngest brother of three. He was always the one to be left out of things and was never included. One day he was strolling around on the clouds when he tripped and fell right through into the empty underworld. Nathaniel looked around trying to find something to communicate with to get help. He found a recently deceased body lying in a corner. He walked over to the body and crouched beside it. As he touched it’s forehead it began to glow and so did Nathaniel’s finger-nails. He felt a sudden connection with this body. He backed away from it to look at other things lying around. As he was roaming in the darkness, he felt the presence of someone following him. Nathaniel turned around only to see the face of the body. It was slowly hovering beside Nathaniel, but he looked harmless.
Nathaniel started feeling ill, he fell to his knees and held his aching stomach. He grew unnaturally long finger-nails, his shirt was lifted off heavenly as a pentagram was scratched onto his chest. Standing up, and looking down at his chest, he saw the sign and touched it. A bright yellow aura exploded around the cave and then surrounded him.
He started to feel more powerful here than he was up in the sky being a God. He wanted to stay here and rule this earth. He needed to find a way to communicate with his brothers up in the Heavens. Nathaniel tried finding ways to get back up to see his brothers. He was curious and wondered if anyone missed him.
Nathaniel had an idea. He crouched down and leapt up into the air with his hands placed straight on his side, flying through the top of the cave all the way into the Heavens. He called his brothers over to tell them what he wanted to be and to do. They all thought he was joking as he couldn’t be taken seriously. They all laughed at him and walked away.
Nathaniel stomped his foot and flew back down to his cave. Nathaniel was furious, his blood started to boil as his face turned red, not only his face but his entire body went blood red. Nathaniel started to grow horns on the top of his head and a tail. He started to feel less compassionate and more wicked. He wanted to be opposite to his brothers.
Instead of being a ‘God’, Nathaniel decided to be a ‘Devil’.
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Phosphorius Beta ...Daniel McNeill
Many many years ago, there lived in the heavens a god of fire, Phosphorius Beta. He loved to see the world in flames and lava, but the other gods disagreed with this. They thought the way he was treating their planet was unacceptable, so they decided to do something about this. They joined together into one huge sentient being, a lush rainforest.
The two beings clashed together with a ‘crack’ and a ‘boom’, both gods knowing this was a battle of life and death. The forest swung vines at Beta and wrapped him so he’d be completely useless and couldn't fight back. Beta became enraged and got even hotter than ever, burning straight through the vines and punching forest right in the mouth, causing him to fall over.
With his last little bit of energy the forest threw his hands in the air and smacked down on Beta, cracking him into a thousand different pieces, and spreading him all over the globe as volcanoes and lava.
Slowly over centuries, the forest regenerated the health he had lost in battle until he had enough strength to fulfill his destiny and create the world as we know it now. With all his might he exploded, spreading trees, shrubs and grasses all over the earth.
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How the unicorn was named- Holly Parsons-van Dam
One day Greg the horse was invited to a party. It was 4 pm and he had two hours to get ready. First he put his party hat on, then went to his fur dresses. He dyed his fur white with a purple mane. When he got home it was 5:30. He cut his hooves and painted them purple.
At 5:50 he drove to Alex’s. Everyone was wearing party hats and different colours. They were playing ‘Pin the tail on the donkey’. but when Greg took his hat off to play his friends put glue around his hat.
Later, Greg said they should all try to fly. Everybody at the party cut out wings and coloured them in. Greg made his wings purple. He jumped off the roof. Flapping his cardboard wings, he started to rise up. “Oh my goodness, I’m flying!!” Greg exclaimed. He came back down to land and his friends started clapping.
Since Greg couldn’t take off his party hat he just ignored it. The trend caught on, and nearly everyone glued hats to their heads. Greg still had to dye his fur every day but he came up with a name for his creation. He got his friends to pick one letter from the alphabet. They chose U, I, N, C, O, N, and R. He rearranged the letters and came up with: Unicorn.
And thats the story of how Unicorns came to be.
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Have you ever wondered why rain and the sun makes rainbows? Well, here is why… by Manreet Kaur
There is a world above the world that we have now- it is a world on the clouds where everyone lives happily. The people there are human but they have wings on their backs which allow them to fly and bounce around on the clouds.
There on the clouds is a palace where all the gods of the sky live. There two sisters, Goddesses, one named Aqua with her black hair and blue wings like the ocean, and the other sister named Shine who has long blond hair and beautiful wings that are gold and sparkle in the sun. Aqua is the goddess of the rain and Shine is the goddess of the sun. Aqua loves her older sister Shine and Shine loves Aqua just as much. The two sisters are different from the others sisters- whenever they are together they make colourful rainbows. Both of them wished that they could stay together forever but unfortunately they couldn't.
One day the goddess of all the goddesses, the goddess of the whole sky, asked Shine to come to her room to have an important talk, The goddess ordered Shine to get married to the god of storms, Grey. Shine didn’t have the strength to say no, so she had no choice but to put aside her feelings and say yes .
Aqua was sitting on Shine’s bed as she walked in. Aqua stood up and asked “Why did the goddess ask you to go to her room?” Tears rolled down Shine’s eyes and Aqua ran over to her looking worried and asked “What's wrong, what happened?” In between sobs Shine replied, “I’m getting married.”
“What?” cried Aqua in horror. “Does that mean you're leaving the palace? Does that mean you are leaving me?”
“Yes” said Shine, crying harder than before.
On the day of Grey and Shine’s wedding everyone was so happy and busy getting ready that no one noticed how sad Aqua and Shine were. When the wedding was over Aqua and Shine hugged, trying not to cry, and Shine sat in the carriage with Grey and rode off into the clouds. After they were out of sight every one went to their houses and all the gods went into the palace. Aqua walked into her room and started crying, thinking about how she could stay in the palace without her older sister.
A few days later Shine came back to visit. Everyone in the kingdom went to the golden gates and Aqua stood at the very front of the crowd. As soon as she saw her sister’s carriage she started jumping up and down in excitement. Finally when the carriage was parked in front of the gates, Shine and Aqua hugged, making the most beautiful rainbow ever, with them standing in the middle of it.
So whenever Shine, the goddess of the sun and Aqua, the goddess of rain, meet they make the most beautiful and colorful rainbows.
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Why the Grass is Green (and borrowing ideas in a ‘friendly’ way)- Hannah Perry-Purchas
There once lived a family called the Greens. The Greens had a small house at the very top of a hill. The hill was covered in long green grass. In the family there was Rachel Green, Monica Green, Ross Green, and their parents, Joey and Phoebe. Where they lived wasn't far from town. And their family lived nearby.
One day Rachel, Monica and Phoebe decided to go for a walk to see their Grandad, Chandler. They said goodbye to the others and started walking down the hill. As they got to the bottom of the hill, they stood on the blue grass. None of them knew why this grass was blue, but their grass was green. But they didn't think anything of it, that was just the way it is. When they got closer to Chandler’s house, the grass became green again.
When they got to their Grandad’s house they all sat down to have lunch. Then Monica finally asked the question that everyone wanted to know the answer to. “Why is the grass green?” She asked out loud.
“Well…” her Grandad began. “The first people that ever walked on the earth were called Adam Green and Steve Green. They were known as Adam and Steve. They had to decide how the world would look. What the colour of the sky was going to be, what colour fire would be and what colour the grass was. They decided that fire would be the ‘hot’ colours; red, orange and yellow. They didn’t know what colour the sky would be, so they went on to the grass.
"But they also wanted to be remembered. So they decided to colour the grass after them. And they made the grass green. But as more and more people were brought onto the earth, they discovered the Blue family. They still hadn’t decided the colour of the sky, but the ‘Blue’ family said that they wanted to be remembered as well. So after years of arguing they said that blue could be the colour of the sky, and green could be the colour of the grass. And this rule would remain the same for all their ancestors. And that is why the grass is green. But sometimes, like in our village, ‘Blues’ decide to come down from the sky, so their grass is blue.”
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How Hawke’s Bay was formed..... James Heffernan
Once there was a time where the entire North Island was flat, with a straight coastline all the way from Cape Reinga to Wellington. The ground was covered in a blanket of grass blades, and the animals ran freely across the blank island. The ancestors of all New Zealand animals, Bat, Beetle and Kiwi, populated the island living off the fish from the coast.
But one day after a tremendous storm, Kiwi flew and caught a massive flounder with rainbow scales. She slowly carried it back to the shore, where Bat and Beetle waited. She fell exhausted to the ground as Bat used his sharpest claw to slice up the Rainbow Fish.
Kiwi squawked in disagreement as Bat dissected it. Beetle asked Kiwi why he was upset and Kiwi told them the fish was a miracle of life, and they should cherish it. Her hungry companions ignored her reasoning, and ate the flounder.
Sun rose in an orange haze that reflected through the ocean all the way to the shore like a path. Beetle, Bat and Kiwi woke to feel the ground rumbling beneath them. Beetle screeched and dug deep into the golden sand. A massive rainbow fin slowly emerged from the water. Eventually a rainbow fish the size of five hundred whales stared at Bat and Kiwi. The sky suddenly grew dark as the rainbow fish rose and blocked out the morning sun. Bravely, Bat asked the giant fish what it wanted. It answered, “I want my son back”. Kiwi immediately realised what had happened. She accused her companions then fled inland.
Giant Fish shouted and shook in rage. Again the ground rumbled. In fear, Bat stood frozen on the sand. The rainbow fish’s long tail began to swing left and right as it gathered momentum. Bat turned and ran as fast as he possibly could. Giant fish opened his jaw as the beach became too shallow to swim, and snapped, swallowing Bat and Beetle. Satisfied, it turned and swam away. Left in it’s trail was a massive bite mark, what is now the coast of the Hawke’s Bay region.
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