![]() ![]() Here, brightly colored silk-screened, flat, and elemental depictions of sun and moon, water and sky contrast sharply with pure white intaglio prints of water’s “people”-a seahorse, a shrimp, a crab, an octopus, and a nautilus-to bring the tale vividly to life. This tale has appeared in several books, but none as imaginatively illustrated as Willow Legge’s. But when Water arrives at Sun’s house with all his people – all the sea creatures – he overflows it, forcing the Sun and his wife, the Moon, to flee the earth and go to live in the sky, where they remain to this day." ![]() The Sun, having often visited the Water at his home, returns the invitation and the Water accepts. "Long ago, the Sun and the Water lived together in friendship on earth. Guildford: Circle Press Publications, 1979Īn African Folktale is an adaptation of a traditional tale told by the Efik people of southeastern Nigeria about why the sun and the moon live in the sky. ![]()
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