Fijian Myths and Legends

In Fiji, the land and legends contain six stories that reveal the spectacle of the customs, traditions, myths and secrets of this South Pacific archipelago. A number of myths also exist about the Fijian practice of fire walking, aspects of abundance and fertility in Polynesian mythology. Melanesian culture often uses music as a traditional way to pass local stories, myths and legends from one generation to the next. Cook Islands have their share of legends, myths and folklore. The history of Fiji is rich in myths and legends that go back thousands of years.

Battle of Shark and Octopus

Polynesia, an archipelago of islands in the Middle and South Pacific, has been spreading myths and legends through verbal propaganda for millennia. Polish verbal tradition varies from land to land, islands to islands, within a land or even from town to town. History often changes over the course of the years because it is not recorded and because it is used for another purposes or another lecture.

This will probably keep changing over the years. In the Middle Ages there was a Fijian deity called Takuaka. It was one of the high lords in Fiji and it was the keeper of the riff. He was courageous, powerful, fearless and envious of all the other guards.

When Takuaka was a divine, he could sometimes turn into an angea (shark) so that he could move from place to place. He' often turned into an angea to defeat the other one. Takuaka went to the archipelago of Lomaiviti one night to confront the guards of the riff.

He' beaten the guards here pretty easy. Arriving in Suva, the guard of this riff defied him. TAKUKA defies a riff guard. TAKUKA won another fight. and won every war. And then one of these days Taquaka ran into an old man named Masilata, another deity.

Maasilata said there is a valiant guard guarding the Kamatuvú Islands. Now that Tukuaka has not wasted any spare moment, he has gone in search of this Sentinel. It was listening to the riff and was swimming towards the soundtrack. As he found the entry to the coral cliff, he saw a large kraken awaiting him.

It had four 10tacles hovering on the sea floor, while the other four 10tacles grabbed the area. TAKUKA was swimming directly towards the FEKA. Then the four swimming 10tacles wound themselves around him and pressed his tight. It was at that point that Takuaka could sense that the fake was really powerful and he felt that the dead was above him.

Takuaka admits his loss for the first ever. The Feykah defeats Takuaka. He was released by the Féke. More Tongan myths can be found in these blog posts from our former mission:

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Battle of Shark and Octopus

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