WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN - A Legend of Finland: Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories - Issue 194

By Anon E. Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 194
In this 194th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Finnish legend “Wainamoinen and Youkahainen.”
After his labours to create the land of Finland, Wainamoinen rested and dedicated himself to singing the legends of Finland. So good and so fine of voice was he, that it was claimed he could sing beings and things into and out of existence.
Way in the North of the country, above the Arctic Circle, lived another, younger singer called Youkahainen. Over time word filtered through about the greatness of Wainamoinen. Youkahainen sets off for the South seeking to challenge Wainamoinen to a contest.................Download and read this story to find how the young Youkahainen faired in his battle with the great Wainamoinen.

Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's 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.

33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: May 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826083803

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WAINAMOINEN

and

YOUKAHAINEN

A Finnish Legend

Wainamoinen sings

by nicolai-kochergin

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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2016

WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN

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Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

ISSN 2397-9607

Issue 194

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An Introduction to Baba Indaba

Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for