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Tongan narrative, Tongan mythology, or ancient Tongan religion, sometimes referred to as tala-ē-fonua (meaning, "telling of the land and its people") [1] in Tongan, is the collation of various myths, legends, stories, traditions, characters, creatures, spirits, and gods of the Polynesian islands that now make up the island nation of Tonga.
Any description of Tongan culture that limits itself to what Tongans see as anga fakatonga would give a seriously distorted view of what people actually do, in Tonga, or in diaspora, because accommodations are so often made to anga fakapālangi. The following account tries to give both the idealized and the on-the-ground versions of Tongan culture.
Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .
Another version of the story says that Sina was from the village of Laloata on the island of Upolu, and her father's name was Pai. [7]On Mangaia in the Cook Islands the version of the story is about a beautiful woman named ‘Ina-moe-Aitu who lived in a cave near Tamarua village and bathed in a stream in her cave.
More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.
Among the first published works of Tongan literature, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were 'Epeli Hau'ofa's short stories and Konai Helu Thaman's poetry. Hau'ofa's popular collection of short stories Tales of the Tikongs (1973) was followed by a novel, Kisses in the Nederends , 1987, noted for its satirical style.
Tongan islands have been making headlines this week after a volcanic eruption cut them off from the rest of the world. The eruption is thought to be one of the strongest felt on Earth in the last ...
However, the former Tongan flag bearer still took part in the celebrations ahead of the July 26 event. Earlier in the day, Taufatofua participated in the torch relay, along with a slew of other ...