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Why God Lives in the Sky

Sound recording, story; an historical tale and Why God Lives in the Sky, an African creation myth and aetiological or how and why story, told by Sally Pomme Clayton as part of a performance, A River of Tales, in relation to an exhibition about David Livingstone, in The National Portrait Gallery, London, 12th April 1996.

Introduction and crick crack call and reponse, followed by story told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A section of frame story introducing David Livingstone, his childhood, his self-education and how he became a missionary in Africa, followed by a traditional tale. A story about man and women's arrival on Earth; how their behaviour caused God to call on Spider to build him a ladder into the sky so that he could escape, and how God sent stories into the world to teach man and women how to live.

audience:- child; family
    recording quality
condition:- fair
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 8 minutes, 43 seconds

storytelling:- storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British

origin:- missionary: David Livingstone
Africa


storytelling:- London, England: The National Portrait Gallery
12 Apr 1996
museum event; public performance: A River of Tales


gift from:- storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton


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