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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.
Tongan narrative; Tuʻi-tā-tui This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 20:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Tongan 1 paʻanga coin depicting Queen Salote Tupou III. Royal Tongan wedding, 1976. On 4 June 1970, protected state status ended under arrangements established prior to her death in 1965 by the third monarch, Queen Sālote. Tonga joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1970, and the United Nations in 1999. While exposed to colonial forces, Tonga ...
In Tongan cosmology the sky, the sea, and Pulotu existed from the beginning, and the gods lived there. The first land they made for the people was Touiaʻifutuna "trapped in Futuna", which was only a rock. There are suggestions that for Tonga and Samoa, Pulotu refers to a real country, in fact Matuku Island in the Lau Islands.
Prince Fatafehi ʻAlaivahamamaʻo Tukuʻaho was the second son of Crown Prince Tāufaʻāhau and his wife, Crown Princess Halaevalu Mataʻaho, and a grandchild of Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga. He was known to be a staunch advocate for the growing democratic movement in Tonga and was dubbed the "people's prince" by activists.
Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965 (ISBN 1-86940-205-7) Latukefu, S. (1974), Church and State in Tonga, ANU Press, Canberra; Campbell, Ian C; Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern, 2001, ISBN 0-908812-96-5 "Brief history of the Kingdom of Tonga", on the website of the Tongan Parliament
Narrative just sounds so non-specific.--189.127.29.141 22:05, 20 August 2020 (UTC) I agree, Tongan Narrative also isn't very searchable, "Tongan Mythology" would fit much better for the general need of trying to make this information available and accessible, the only issue is that I don't know how to change it.
Tuʻi Tonga, rulers of Tonga from c. 950 to 9th December, 1865, when the last Tu'i Tonga, HM Sanualio Fatafehi Laufilitonga, died. Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, rulers of Tonga from c. 1470 to c. 1800. Tuʻi Kanokupolu, rulers of Tonga from c. 1500 to the present day. George Tupou I, the first constitutional monarch of Tonga, was the 19th Tuʻi Kanokupolu.