Choarang Storyland Readers



The Dinosaur Story


by koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

 

 c  Choarang Children Publications  2000


The Dinosaur Story

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A long time ago, four thousand five hundred and twenty three years ago, there lived a man with the name Noah.

Noah was a good man because he was friends with God. At that time there were dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were like big giants and the people had to use fire to keep the dinosaurs away from them. The Sauroposeidon had a very long neck. Every day he ate enough food that could fill a small truck. If a man stands under his stomach he could not touch it. His neck was so long that he was able to look into apartments at the sixth floor.

Noah lived in the same time as these big giants.


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Many people did not make friends with God so God said to Noah that he should build a big ship. The ship must be the size of a Titanic made of wood. God said to Noah that he is going to bring a big storm over the whole earth. The water will be as high as the waves of the sea. Only the people in the ship will be saved.

Noah built the ship of wood. He worked very hard and many days. There was blisters on his hands and many nights he was very tired. When the morning comes it was difficult to wake up and go back to work. But he did.


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Finally the ship was finished. There it was standing far away from any water and in the valley. There was a door on the side and big poles on the sides keep it standing. A wooden ramp went up from the ground to the door. Noah and his family always walked through this door to work inside on the ship. Now that the ship was finished it was time for Noah to speak to the people to come into the ship.


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Noah talked to the people. The people laughed. "You have to come inside because it is going to rain and the waves will be as big as the mountains," Noah says. The people laughed. "Big as the sea? It looks pretty dry here to us!" they shouted. Many people from other countries heard about this ship and when the people came to do business they looked at it. "What is it?" they would ask. "Noah built this ship because he thinks there is going to be water like the sea," they answered. Everybody laughed.


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Then the animals began to walk into the ship two by two and sometimes in groups of seven. They did not bite each other but calmly walked into the ship. The people were very surprised. The farmers who knew animals well could not stop talking about it. They know of a certain illness that animals sometimes get and then they are very tamed. "Maybe these animals are ill with that sickness," they said. "To get that illness is dangerous for people," they said.


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"Now it is your turn," said Noah. "The door is open and you are welcome to come in," he said. "Oh no!" they said, "we cannot enter that dark cave."

"What about the bad smell," they said. Noah pleaded with them but they laughed and said that they will not enter. For many days Noah asked them to come in but it did not help. People were not interested to go in.


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Then Noah and his wife and three sons and three wives went into the ship. The people watched and laughed. Noah stood at the door and waved to the people to come in. The people waved back and laughed. The door was locked and Noah and his family was inside the ship with the animals. The dinosaurs were too big to go into the ship. They were not in the ship.


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It began to rain and the water fell from the sky. It rained "cats and dogs". Volcanoes opened up and lava flowed with the streams of water that was everywhere. Water from under the earth and from the sky came together around the ship and lifted it up very high.


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All the people outside the ship died. The dinosaurs could not survived these waves and water and they died also. The mammoths floated on the waves and some of them ended up near Siberia where one can still see them today in the ice. The people and animals in the ship were save.


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When the waters went back into the air and into the earth again, all the dinosaurs were dead. Their bodies could be seen everywhere. Big fishes the size of a whale landed in the middle of Iowa in the USA. Another big fish the size of a man landed on a mountain in Amman Jordan. Lava, water and sand covered the dead bodies. Since that day the bones of these dead animals, plants and fishes became fossilized. When the ship stopped on dry ground again, Noah and the animals could leave the ship.


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Noah made a offering to his friend God to thank him for saving him and his family. God answer to Noah by giving the rainbow and promised that there will never be again a flood the size that it was four thousand five hundred and twenty three years ago counting from this year in 2000.

This is the story of the dinosaurs and their death.