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A fisherman freeing a glowing sea turtle that becomes a goddess in the Caribbean Sea, Kalinago folktale scene.

The Fisherman and the Sea Goddess

On the island of Dominica, where the green mountains rise from the blue Caribbean Sea, there once lived a fisherman named Aro. He was poor but content, living in a small thatched hut near the shore. Each morning before the first light, he pushed his canoe into the water and paddled beyond the coral reef where the deep sea shimmered.

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