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In 1980, a $5 note was issued shortly after the "Monetary Board of Western Samoa" was created. Beginning in 1985, the new Central Bank of Samoa followed issued notes like the preceding issue from the Monetary Board of Western Samoa, but with the new issuer's name in both Samoan and English.
Tuife'ai is a title that has many tala (legends) from Manu'a, Tutuila and 'Upolu. Sunia notes that the title goes back as far as 500 A.D., [19] and that the Tuife'ai of that time is responsible for the first failed invasion of the Manu'a kingdom. The title established familial ties with the Mālietoa in the 13th or 14th century.
Tala o le Vavau: The Myths, Legends and Customs of Old Samoa. University of Hawai'i Press. Tu'u'u, Misilugi (2001). Rulers of Samoa Islands and their Legends and Decrees. Tuga'ula Publications. Tu'u'u, Misilugi (2002). Supremacy and Legacy of the Malietoa (Samoa Listened To). Tuga'ula Publications. Hart, Wright & Patterson (1971). History of Samoa.
In Samoan legend, the mythological figure Tiʻitiʻi Atalaga appears in legends very similar to those recounting the tales of the demigod Māui, found in other island cultures. In one such legend, which is almost identical to the New Zealand fire myth of Māui Tikitiki-a-Taranga, he succeeds in bringing fire to the people of Samoa after a ...
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They cohabitated and the god went back up. He returned and they slept and he went up, many times. One day they overslept and a tern flying over saw them and woke them up. Therefore one island is called Tala-kite (tern-see) and the other Mata-ʻaho (Eye-of-day). ʻIlaheva became pregnant and bore a son.
In Samoan mythology, Tagaloa (also known as Tagaloa-Lagi or Tagaloa, Lagi of the Heavens/Skies) is generally accepted as the supreme ruler, [1] the creator of the universe, the chief of all gods and the progenitor of other gods. Tagaloa Lagi dwelt in space and made the Heavens the sky, the land, the seas, the fresh water, the trees and the people.
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