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Speaker 1: This is such a cozy campfire, I know.

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Speaker 2: And look up, there are so many stars.

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Speaker 3: Billie is wondering how they all got there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know how you do.

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Speaker 2: Yes, of course the hummingbird did the hummingbird.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we

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Speaker 3: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the

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Speaker 3: fun of play learning. In today's episode, Cowie tells her

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Speaker 3: friends how the stars were born. But is it true?

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Speaker 3: Join us as we learn about myths. What is a

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Speaker 3: myth and why have people told them for hundreds of years?

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Speaker 3: Let's get back to the campfire to find out, Cowie,

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Speaker 3: what does a little hummingbird have to do with stars?

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Speaker 1: The hummingbird make stars?

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Speaker 3: Billy says, that's not true. The stars are made from

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Speaker 3: gases like hydrogen and helium.

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Speaker 2: And nope, Billy, the hummingbird makes the stars with their meek.

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Speaker 4: That's so cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the animals were all scared of the dark, so

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Speaker 1: the hummingbirds make stars for them.

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Speaker 5: Oh, that's so nice of the humming bird.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I agree with Billy.

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Speaker 4: That does not sound true. It is true, I heard.

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Speaker 3: It, Kellie. It sounds to me like you are sharing

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Speaker 3: a myth. A myth called how the stars were born?

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Speaker 3: That is a Native American myth? What's a myth? Is

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Speaker 3: it bad? A myth is not bad, but it is

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Speaker 3: also not true.

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Speaker 4: I knew it.

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Speaker 2: But if it's not true, why did someone tell it

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Speaker 2: to me?

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Speaker 3: Myths are stories people make up to explain things that

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Speaker 3: are hard to understand.

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Speaker 5: Oh, like where all these stars.

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Speaker 3: Came from, yes, exactly, or how the world began, or

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Speaker 3: why there is thunder, or even why a spider has

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Speaker 3: eight legs.

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Speaker 5: I was wondering about spider legs.

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Speaker 3: Billy says, we don't need myths. We have computers. We

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Speaker 3: can just look it up. I agree, or read a book.

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Speaker 2: There are lots of books about stars at the library.

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Speaker 3: Yes, those are good ideas, but most myths were made

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Speaker 3: up a long time ago. Let's try something. Close your

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Speaker 3: eyes and imagine that you lived a long, long time ago. Lingo,

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Speaker 3: Kids Listeners, you can try.

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Speaker 1: To, Okay, I'm imagining.

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Speaker 3: Try to imagine a time before there were any computers

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Speaker 3: or televisions or even books.

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Speaker 5: No bedtime stories.

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Speaker 4: Yikes, sounds boring. What did people even do?

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Speaker 3: Good question, Lisa, Lingo Kids Listeners, What would you do

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Speaker 3: for fun if you lived before computers and television and

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Speaker 3: books were invented.

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Speaker 1: I would draw pictures.

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Speaker 2: But Cobbie, what if there's not even paper yet? I

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Speaker 2: could draw with a stick in the sand.

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Speaker 4: See school.

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Speaker 3: Billy would sing I liked your song, Billy.

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Speaker 4: I would dance watch this.

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Speaker 3: What would you do, Lisa?

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Speaker 2: I think I would make up stories and have all

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Speaker 2: my friends hack them out like a show.

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Speaker 3: Amazing. Those are all things that ancient people did to

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Speaker 3: have fun and to share stories or myths about the world.

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Speaker 3: They made shows and dances and songs so the myths

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Speaker 3: would not be forgotten.

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Speaker 5: Actually that does sound fun.

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Speaker 2: Wow, I can't believe we still know stories from that

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Speaker 2: long time ago.

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Speaker 5: They must be really good stories.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there are many different kinds of myths. Some have

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Speaker 3: heroes and villains and monsters and hummingbirds. Yes, and hummingbirds.

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Speaker 5: So how did the hummingbird make the stars? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: Well, I remember some of the story, but I don't

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Speaker 2: know if I remember.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's okay, Calie, I can help you tell it.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I'll try.

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Speaker 2: So it used to always be daytime, no nighttime at all.

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Speaker 5: Really, I didn't.

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Speaker 4: Know that me neither.

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Speaker 3: Remember, this is a myth, a made up story.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, but the end will started fighting a lot.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, Oh, yes, so the Great Spirit put a

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Speaker 2: blanket over the whole earth.

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Speaker 3: Billy wants to know who the Great Spirit is. Billy.

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Speaker 3: In this Native American myth, the Great Spirit is like

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Speaker 3: Mother Nature, a powerful force. Many myths have gods or

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Speaker 3: spirits in them that make things happen on earth.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but why did the Great Spirit put a blanket

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Speaker 2: on the earth to make it dark so the n

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Speaker 2: will look not fighting. They were probably to scare the fight.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and too.

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Speaker 3: Cold, that's right, Cowie. Then the tiny hummingbird had an idea.

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Speaker 3: The other animals told her she was too small to help,

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Speaker 3: but she tried anyway. She flew up and up and

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Speaker 3: up she flew all the way to the blanket.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, this is my favorite part. Once she got

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Speaker 2: to the blankets, she poked it with her beak.

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Speaker 3: It made a little hole and light shined through.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 3: She tried and tried to move the blanket, and every

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Speaker 3: time she poked more little holes.

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Speaker 4: Hey, she's making stuff.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. The animals looked up to see the beautiful stars.

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Speaker 3: The great spirits saw how hard the little hummingbird was

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Speaker 4: Off, and then he was stay yay.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but to remind the animals not to fight, the

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Speaker 3: great Spirit put the blanket back on for half the day.

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Speaker 2: That's nighttime, yes, and every night you can still see

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Speaker 2: all those holes in the blankets. Oh, that's the stars.

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Speaker 3: Billy thinks that's a really good story, even if there's

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Speaker 3: no helium or hydrogen in it.

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Speaker 2: I love that myth, and it kind of makes sense

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Speaker 2: even if it's not true.

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Speaker 3: Yes, myths are an ancient way to explain things before science,

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Speaker 3: and they still teach us something about how to treat

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Speaker 3: each other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because even though the hummingbird was very small, she

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Speaker 2: made a big difference where to go homing birds.

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Speaker 3: Well, Lingo Kids listeners, today we learned about myths. How

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Speaker 3: we learned that myths are not true stories, but they

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Speaker 3: help explain things that are hard to understand, at least

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Speaker 3: in ancient times. If myths are not true, why do

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Speaker 3: you think we still tell them. You can share your

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Speaker 3: favorite myth with Lingo Kids in the comments. Join us

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Speaker 3: next episode to continue play learning together.