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A glowing canoe guided by ancestral lights over calm ocean waters Marshall Islands folktale scene.

The Spirit Canoe of the Dead

In the time before the world knew separation between the living and the dead, the people of the Marshall Islands believed that every soul was born from the ocean’s breath. When life ended, the spirit did not vanish. It returned to the waves, guided by the voices of those who had gone before. This belief became the story of the
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