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Ананси и Мудрость

Anansi and Wisdom

Ghanaian folktale

The god Nyame gives Anansi a pot holding all the world's wisdom, and when his small son outsmarts him Anansi throws it from a tree and the wisdom spills out for everyone. A Ghanaian folktale.

The opening

Они не знали как собирать урожай, как делать ткани или железные инструменты.

They didn't know how to plant crops, or how to weave cloth, or how to make iron tools.

У бога Ньяме высоко на небе была вся мудрость в мире.

The god Nyame up in the sky had all the wisdom of the world.

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216 words, about 2 minutes of reading.

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