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Overview
In Ker’s account, rising seawater drives snakes and other beings to Mount Tauaga. Raudalo remains calm and asks his servants repeatedly where the flood has reached. Titiko, Dubo and Anauri finally announce that it is about to touch him. He turns, extends his forked tongue and touches the advancing water; the sea stops rising and begins to withdraw.
Raudalo follows the retreat downhill and across the plain, repeatedly extending his tongue until the water returns to its bed. Fearing another inundation, he stays in a coral cave among the cliffs of Qarara. When threatening waves return, he emerges and speaks a calming charm. The narrator expressly reports what elders told rather than claiming to have witnessed the first intervention. Dixon’s later summary omits the continuing cave guardianship and shortens Anauri to Anaur.
Origins & earliest records
Annie Ker, Papuan Fairy Tales (London: Macmillan, 1910), The King of the Snakes, pp. 30–31. Individual narrator unnamed.
Records & interpretation
Complete collected tale read; Dixon Part II, chapter I, pp. 119–120 and note 58 identify Ker p. 30.
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Papuan Fairy Tales: The King of the Snakes, pp. 30–31
Full tale including continuing guardian ending.
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- Primary collected textKer 1910, King of the SnakesResearch access: 2026-10-05
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