Monday, April 29, 2024

Z is for Zambia


 How the Mason-Wasp Fetched Fire from God

The birds needed fire but there wasn't any on earth so four birds decided to get it from God. After twenty days of travel, three of the birds died. Mason-Wasp stops at a cloud. God asks what he is doing there and, after explaining, the Lord makes him the leader of the birds and tells him how to make babies (it's not clear if they received fire).

Source: Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia by Edwin William Smith

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