The Tale of Rapeto and Traditional Malagasy Dances

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By Vony Randrianonenana, Madagascar. This is the story of Rapeto, a kind giant who fell into the sea and created the island of Madagascar. After the story, enjoy two traditional Malagasy dances.

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[00:00:07.790]Good morning, dear children.
[00:00:10.250]My name is Vony I'm from Madagascar,
[00:00:13.610]Madagascar is the island in Indian ocean
[00:00:18.560]Over here and it's a part of the African continent.
[00:00:22.790]So Madagascar is the island over here.
[00:00:26.090]People living in Madagascar Is called Malagasy. Today,
[00:00:30.590]I'm going to share with you a traditional tale entitled
[00:00:35.390]Rapeto. So let me start. Once upon a time, dear children,
[00:00:40.730]there was a huge man,
[00:00:43.220]a giant whose head reached to the sky.
[00:00:48.440]And when he took a step, it would reach,
[00:00:52.460]the other end of the word, because he's very big,
[00:00:57.410]tall, huge, but he's very,
[00:01:01.070]very kind. One day a poor peasant
[00:01:05.870]Saw a huge tree trunk and decided to cut
[00:01:10.710]it. So at the first blow of the ax,
[00:01:15.980]Rapeto thought it was a mosquito bite.
[00:01:20.990]So he didn't pay much attention.
[00:01:24.860]The peasant didn't know that this is the giant's leg.
[00:01:30.110]He thought
[00:01:30.650]it was a tree and he continued to chop to
[00:01:35.300]Chop and Rapeto scratched his
[00:01:39.710]leg from time to time,
[00:01:42.980]the blood began to flow, flow and
[00:01:47.960]became the stream, a red stream.
[00:01:52.910]And then a river.
[00:01:57.560]Rapeto's blood didn't stop flowing and turned
[00:02:02.210]into fertilizer,
[00:02:04.850]which means his blood made the land
[00:02:09.470]fertile.
[00:02:10.640]And the great variety of trees grew in the
[00:02:15.350]world.
[00:02:17.420]Then, Rapeto fell into the
[00:02:21.860]sea, as you can see.
[00:02:25.460]So it is said that Rapeto's fall into the
[00:02:29.960]ocean caused the waves.
[00:02:33.980]And this is why the sea does not stop moving.
[00:02:38.720]It's waving. Madagascar
[00:02:43.070]island came out of the ocean when Rapeto
[00:02:47.570]fell into the sea.
[00:02:49.970]That's why Madagascar has the shape of
[00:02:55.580]Rapeto's left foot.
[00:02:58.160]As you can see, the sole of his left foot.
[00:03:03.370]So from the story of Rapeto what we have learned?
[00:03:08.410]Rapeto brought,
[00:03:10.090]four benefits for all over the world, first,
[00:03:15.040]the stream and the river from the giant leg,
[00:03:19.390]blood from Rapeto, like blood.
[00:03:23.320]The second one is the land,
[00:03:25.530]Became fertile and grew a variety of
[00:03:30.190]trees, plants because of his blood.
[00:03:35.080]Third,
[00:03:36.370]when he fell into the sea, from that time,
[00:03:41.410]the sea didn't stop moving, the sea wave
[00:03:46.600]and fourth the shape of Madagascar from the
[00:03:51.370]sole of his left foot.
[00:03:56.890]So thank you very much for your attention.
[00:03:59.770]I hope you enjoy that traditional tale.
[00:04:04.360]Now I'm going to present you a traditional dance,
[00:04:08.290]Malagasy dance.
[00:04:10.300]So I hope one day you will be coming here in our touristic
[00:04:15.340]beautiful, lovely island, Madagascar, at least,
[00:04:19.960]you know,
[00:04:20.740]our famous traditional dance called Afindrafindrao.
[00:04:25.810]Thank you very much, dear children.
[00:04:28.380][music].

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