Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit (bahasa inggris)

Why some people are black and others white and brown story
(Favourite story from Philippines)

Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

When the world was young, no one lived on earth. Every day, Magbabaya, the God of life, looked down on the earth from his home in the sky.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

“Oh, how lovely the earth looks! It’s so big but yet so empty!”

One day, he had a bright idea.

“I must make some people to live on earth.”
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

He jumped down from his home in the sky. He dug up, some earth and mixed it with water. He then made some human beings out of it. He laid them on the ground to dry in the sun.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

Soon he returned to the sky, he hunted the whole day in the sky forest, afterwards, he went home with the animals he had caught. Suddenly, he remembered the people he had left to dry in the sun. he returned to earth as fast as he could. But they had already been burnt as black as coal by the hot sun.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

He shook his head. “I must try again,” he said. “Next time, I’ll be careful not to leave them so long under the sun.”
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

Again, he made some human beings out of clay. He laid them out carefully to dry under the sun. but he was so worried this time that he did not leave them long enough. They were not baked properly. When he looked at them, he saw that they were too pale.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

He said. “Tomorrow when the sun shine, I shall make some more people. This time, I shall make sure they are baked longer.”
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

Once more, he took some clay and made some human beings out of it. He laid them carefully in the sun. when he thought that the sun was getting too hot, he covered them with leaves, and put them in the shede.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

Then he let a gentle breeze blow over them. Every now and again, he turned each of them over so that they would have the same light brown colour all over.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

When he had finished, he looked proudly at his work. They were a golden brown colour and very good to look at. “They are perfect!” he cried happily.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit

Then he collected all the human beings he had made and placed them in different parts of the world.

And this is why we have black, white and brown people today.
Cerita Sejarah Warna Kulit