What are some of the local stories of myth that are popular in East Timor that are often told within East Timor literature are recited by East Timor children?
The legend of crocodile island According to the origin myth of the island, Timor was originally a young crocodile, saved by a human boy from death, traveling to east for the boy dream in seeing the world, and grow into the biggest crocodile that can travel in sea, who later turned into an island upon his death and let his body become the boy descendant new home.