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Pouviaserole the Child Eating Rock ? Ancient Myth

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Pouviaserole the Child Eating Rock – Ancient Myth

By: Wendy Stenberg-Tendys

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As an innovative worlds first initiative Rick and Wendy Tendys founded the YouMe Support Foundation. They are and are raffling Seachange Lodge Resort on the Internet to raise funds for non-repayable the resort called Seachange Lodge.(http://youmesupport.org)

This Blue Moon Opportunity will see the lucky winners own outright a private holiday home, plus 6 luxury holiday apartments. The foundation will provide non re-payable high school education grants for the children of the outer islands of Vanuatu. (http://winaresort.com)

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Generations of people with an oral tradition, keep their ancient traditions and customs alive in the far northern isolated tropical islands of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.

The sacred Bay of Olal, on the Island of Ambrym, is the home of a large rock, named Pouviaserole. The locals say it was once the guardian of the bay.

Pouviaserole, or Guardian, was a marine beast with a large horn in the middle of its head. Tradition says it had the appearance of something between a wild boar and a savage dog of enormous proportions.

Pouviaserole transformed itself into an innocent looking log. It would lay on the beach watch the children, from the nearby villages, enjoying a swim in the tropical and tepid waters of the bay.

The children would often pick up the log and throw Pouviaserole into the water. Peals of laughter would fill the air as they watched the ‘log’ drift back up on the beach.

Pouviaserole would suddenly transform itself back into the monster it really was, pounce on the unsuspecting children and consume them.

The beast repeated the deception after many months, as undetected it would once more slink away to its underwater lair, with a belly full of children.

That area of the ocean eventually became off limits, as the Chieftan of the neighbouring village finally declared the children were no longer allowed to swim there.

Pouviaserole showed up at the village, after realising the children were no longer visiting his beach. In anticipation of the coming feast, it hungrily licked its lips as it slithered along.

The most handsome and the strongest child of the village, was suddenly snatched greedily by the monster. It was the Chief’s son.

The men of the village were ordered, by the enraged and grieving Chief, to hide in the bush which surrounded the beach. Finally revenge would be exacted on the guardian of the sacred bay.

Still hungry, the monster needed more food.

It was only out of the water a small way when the avenging hunters attacked. The men of the village rushed forward in spite of the size of the huge beast. Throwing their spears, the first hit the monster in the eye and the next in its stomach.

Mortally wounded the beast turned, determined to reach the safety of its lair before breathing its last breath. In one last effort, a valiant warrior threw his spear. It embedded itself in the nape of the monster’s neck.

Pouviaserole blood stained the sacred waters. It stopped, as if in one final act of defiance, it turned into a rock to protect itself from its attackers. Immortality had come to Pouviaserole.

Visitors can see the guardian of the bay in the Bay of Olal, even today.

An illustrated anthology of the oral traditions of Vanuatu called Nabanga is rich with tales like the one of the Guardian rock Pouviaserole. Vanuatu is beginning to share its many secrets, as when it recently sent some of its sacred art to an exhibition outside Vanuatu for the first time.

Some may read these anthological tales with amusement. However, an underlying tragedy lays at the heart the beautiful tropical islands of the Happiest Country on Earth.

Education is an elusive goal for many children throughout Vanuatu. Education is not free. The meagre income, of many of the isolated villagers in a “no cash” economy, on under per day, means there is no education.

What are the consequences for the island children?

Only 55.8% of Vanuatu kids will get to grade 6;

of those only 18.2% will go to high school ;

26% will never go to school at all.

The Vanuatu government in late 2007 admitted it did not have the money, or the resources to provide education outside of the main islands. Education is not a priority.

Make a difference; join an exciting Blue Moon Opportunity. Help children who love and appreciate their own culture while being hungry to enjoy the benefits of the 21st Century.

You can really make a difference. This is an opportunity you can’t afford to miss.

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As an innovative worlds first initiative Rick and Wendy Tendys founded the YouMe Support Foundation. They are and are raffling Seachange Lodge Resort on the Internet to raise funds for non-repayable the resort called Seachange Lodge.(http://youmesupport.org)

This Blue Moon Opportunity will see the lucky winners own outright a private holiday home, plus 6 luxury holiday apartments. The foundation will provide non re-payable high school education grants for the children of the outer islands of Vanuatu. (http://winaresort.com)

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Taylor Swift: Grammy’s Golden Child

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by Mike Shadle

Taylor Swift: Grammy’s Golden Child

If anything, the recent Grammy Awards ceremony held last January 31, 2010 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California proved the fact that a fresh-faced, twenty-something from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania has really dominated the scene with her brand of country love songs, marking off a new era in country music. With four major awards that she had won that night-edging out more experienced fellow country singers such as Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Womack, Keith Urban and the like, Taylor Swift proved that she is really Grammy’s golden child.

Bursting into the scene in 2006 with her self-titled debut album, Swift steadily acquired a solid fan base as she continued to win fans’ and critics’ approval for her songs, which she mostly wrote herself. In her early days, Swift was initially likened to fellow country singers such as Carrie Underwood and LeAnn Rimes. That is until late November of 2008, when Swift released her phenomenal studio album which debuted at the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, cementing her crossover appeal to both pop and country music fans and effectively stepping out of Underwood’s and Rimes’ shadows. More hit country love songs followed, along with various awards from the CMA, the VMAs, the AMAs, the Billboard Music Awards, the People’s Choice Awards and the Grammys, among many others.

Although she seems like an overnight success to most, things have not always been peachy for the young artist. She did languish for many years before asking popular songwriter Liz Rose to co-write with her when she was an unknown talent at that time. Fortunately, her risks paid off, and from a virtual nobody, she metamorphosed into one of the most bankable artists of the year, crossing over from country to pop and dominating both charts throughout 2009.

In one of the most touching moments of the night, in her acceptance speech for winning the Best Country Album award for “Fearless,” said, ‘“This is my first time walking up those stairs to accept a Grammy on national television. I just keep thinking back to like when you’re in second grade and you sing at your talent show for the first time. People joke around and they say, ‘Oh maybe we’ll see you at the Grammys someday.’ But that seems like an impossible dream,” she enthused, “And I just feel like I’m standing here accepting an impossible dream right now and I just thank you so much for that.”

Of course, throughout the night, her acceptance speeches remained uninterrupted unlike last year’s MTV VMA fiasco, during which she was rudely interrupted by Kanye West. As the rest of the Awards ceremony unfolded, Swift dazzled and shined, winning a total of four awards including trophies for Album Of The Year, Best Female Country Vocal Performance, Best Country Song, and Best Country Album. Her wins were no easy achievements as she beat out more experienced country singers such as Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Underwood and Lee Ann Womack for Best Female Country Vocal Performance; as well as Trace Adkins, Jamey Johnson, Lady Antebellum and Billy Currington for Best Country Song; Zac Brown Band, George Strait and Keith Urban for Best Country Album; and Beyoncé Knowles, The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and the Dave Matthews Band for the most important award for the night, Album of the Year.

Joe Hansen is a music expert, specialized in country songs reviews.

For more tips and information about country singers, please visit country love songs.

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