

Before the world became as it is today….Before the beginning of time, before the beginning of everything, before there was a beginning….Back when the world was young, and the humans and the animal people could speak to each other….Back in the days when animals could talk….Back, far back, in the mists of time when the world was very young….

At the time when men and animals were all the same and spoke the same language… (Traditional Navajo opening).At a time when the rivers were made of chocolate and wishes could come true….A story, a story, let it come, let it go.If you have nothing else to do, I will tell this tale to you. A Saam told this tale as he sat with his friends by the fire at night.A long time ago, long ago, so long ago that no one can remember, and no tree can remember, and no rock can remember so long ago that there were no people, and there were no trees, and the rocks had not been made….A long time ago in Estonia, people didn’t have bathtubs in their houses.A long time ago – and yet perhaps it wasn’t such a very long time ago – there lived….

