Marquesan Tiki

Twixt Arts and Religions

The Tiki sculptures, which originate from the Marquesas, are located on most of Polynesia's isles. He usually has a giant mind that symbolizes his powers. This tiki is very strong and has a big lips, which sometimes gives it a cheerful or raw aura. Polynesia Tiki can be a whole man or just a mind, according to the sculptor's ability and endurance.

Frequently placed outside of homes, tiki's are available to keep the residents safe. Polynesians, who are still very much linked to their tradition, still respects these protections. People say that every tiki has its own personalities and some are bad, while others are sympathetic. Polynesia's biggest 2.35 metre long explored is located on the Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, with a view of the river Mary in the bay of Oipona Puamau.

Every Tiki has its own meaning: some stand for knowledge, others for allegiance, dancing or strength. A well-known variant of the Tiki is the mai, a memorial rock sculpture on Easter Island. They differ from the Polyynesian Tiki by their height and slimmer look. A mai can vary in height from 2.5 to 9 metres with an avarage mass of 14 tons.

For the tiki, the moon are monolithically cut from a piece of rock. The seven mai of Ahu Akivi are the only ones directed towards the inner part of the islands to preserve the villi. Nevertheless, the Tiki is a very mighty and mysterious symbol of Polish civilization, symbolising real intellectuality.

That is why people who cross our island take a small tiki figure as a memento to keep them safe later on their itinerary.

French Polynesia: Over the Marquesas Islands

Marquesas Islanders' lifestyles were a blend of functionality and legend. Although it was complicated, and in many cases uncommon, but at all time it was unique Marquesan. They sailed through the dark of the dark to appear where the star was shining on a group of volcanoes that greeted them as a universe of lights.

Hiva was the name given to the archipelago, but hundreds of years later it was re-named by another tribe, the Marquesas. Populated islets in the south group are Uapou, Nuku Hiva and Uahuka, and the north group are fatty islets. There were a number of smaller islets that were occupied until the West man came with an army of lethal germs that seemed to be everywhere around him.

Old populations of the island went into ten-thousand. In 1813, Captain Porter counted 19,200 soldiers in Nuku Hiva and put the group' overall populations at 80,000. The Polynesians suffer more for their friendliness and friendliness towards the Europeans than the Marquesans.

Marquesas are jagged islets with a wealth of basalt stones that provided the early colonists with a tool. These were the cause of their lives, which extended from the centre of Polynesia to establish themselves in the profound, insulated dales of the jagged islets of Hiva. It has been so long established that the legend that has been filtrated over generation after generation has passed on the name of the first explorers and their travelers.

Sanctified songs, corresponding to the abbreviated form of the logbooks of deep-sea skippers, note the name of the different countries through which they went south-west in the world. The old name was given to the villages in the new homeland, and just as the name New England in the east of the United States of America testifies to the origins in England, so the Marquesan songs and the villages clearly refer to the Society Islands as the last place from which the humans came.

In the centre of the village in each archipelago should be a memorial to the first settler's chief or a mere sanctuary for the unidentified explorer. Maybe a slight vibratory from the dark past can move our dried bone or softly tap our hearts to better appreciate our past forefathers, even if their lives are overlooked.

Some of Marquesan Mythen were apparently partly overlooked when they were first written down long after the contacts with Europe. Her descendants were many, including Atea, Tane, Tu, Ono-tapu (Rongo-tapu), Tonofiti, Tiki and Aumia. Ru, who supported the Heavenly Man in Tahiti and on the Cook Islands, is away from the Marquesan legend, but his place is taken by Tonofiti, who drove the upper class upwards.

Marquesan legend differs from the patterns previously seen in one father marrying another father and producing Atea. Atea Pata got divorced on other isles, but since Daddy was already divorced, the Marquesan College established the new personality, Atanua, as Atea's spouse. Replaced the take (source) as it was used on the early humans who were spreading to Hiva with Te Tumu (source).

Fa'ahotu had either not been discovered in the main area before the take link or had been forgot, otherwise the Marquesan College had certainly paired Atea with Fa'ahotu and thus spared the effort of reinventing Atanua. The name Atea remained meaningful by becoming the immediate predecessor of man. He also marries various personalized women and produces hills, cliffs, soil, various alimentary crops such as coconut, breadfruits, chestnut, other non-edible and porc.

So Atea got the procreation role, which is assigned to Tiki in the legends of Tuamotu, Mangareva, New Zealand and Easter Island. Among the other descendants of the upper and lower classes, Tu acted in his usual role as god of battle, and those who participated in his ceremony were called Ati-tu (the tribe of Tu), `Ono or `Ono-tapu, who appeared as Rongo, the god of peacemaking and farming, on other isles, is just a mythical nature without godly attribute.

The Marquesans may have been so bellicose that they had no use for a land of the land of a landowner, and their land was so small that they had little to owe to a landowner. Rongo once had the might is shown by the legend of his loss of the deity Tohetika, who finds a place as Toutika in the Cook Islands mantheon.

Tan is one of the most important deities of Opoa, who sacrificed his deity in the Marquesas. It is also associated with bright-skinned humans and was therefore considered in history to be the forefather of the family. The most conspicuous feature of the Marquesan legend is the lack of Tana'oa (Tangaroa) among the descendants of Papa'una and Papa'a'o.

Since Tangaroa acts as the deity of the ocean and fisheries in New Zealand, it seems that these were its real divisions when the Marquesan and New Zealander peoples abandoned Cephalonia and that its uprising as creators belonged to a later developmental phase in Cephalopolynesia.

There are some legends that make Tiki the grandfather of man. The upper and lower layers were birthed from this pair, which in turn gave life to Atea and Atanua. Nuku Hiva by incantation and put Atea and Atanua on it. Nuku Hiva tribe took pictures in Tiki Stones and used them in their adoration.

The later Marquesans probably assembled this variation from excavated pieces to meet the demands of the old tradition's searchers. It' s very unlikely that an old clergyman or historicist would have deviated so much from the patterns that exist on other isles.

The other Tiki legend says that the lady he made of clay or clay was called Hina-mata-one. Obviously, the Marquesan schools had the initial legend of Tiki as a human being' s immediate ancestors, but contemporary scholars have failed to replace Atea with Tiki.

The Marquesan genalogy shows that there are one hundred and fifty-nine different epochs, beginning with Ani-motua (Rangi-matua), the Heavenly Fathers. The Vatea (Atea) and his woman Atanua appear in the 50th and Tiki in the 70th century, so that the order of Vatea and Tiki is straight.

It' s a confusing schedule of evolving learner systems - bewildered because the lessons of the old Marquesan schools of teaching cannot be understood. Marquesans are kept having used their apparatus as a tool to note their family histories, but though recent nodes may have been added as infants were nuclear physicist to a pedigree, the nodes themselves could not give the keyword to each name.

The Maui brothers are among the most famous figures, seven of whom are in the Marquesas. When we replace Maui-roto by Maui-mu'i, we have exactly the same name as in the five-person New Zealand name. These were probably alternate designations for two of an initial five-person familiy, but over the years they were considered as independent persons, bringing the number of the familiy to seven.

At the Marquesas, Maui-tikitiki, the youngest, picked up several isles, received fire from his grandpa Mauike in the lower areas and grabbed the suntan with a sling of man's head of hairdryer to slow his way across the skies to allow Maui's clothes drying up. Some of the early colonists of the six populated isles are known from the times of the mythical people.

It is said that these forebears reached Hiva between the 10th and 12th century, but there is no records of the name of their vessels. Hivaoa (Hiva Oa) is thought to have been the first village in the Country of Lights in the old Vevau area, which today includes the Atuona, Te Hutu, Ta'aoa and Tahuaka Valley.

It was here, in the most fruitful part of the most beautiful of the islands, that the Take came to settle; here they built a culture centre where they assembled and condensed their legend and tradition to a certain design. The Vevau valley was a place where the tribe grew up and became a tribe.

Several of them emigrated to neighbouring isles, and formed new strains. Taipi-vai on the northern part of the Nuku Hiva has become a second culture-center. Those who died on the islets had to go back to Kiukiu before heading west.

Vevau folk named themselves Na-iki, a contractual type of Na-'iki, which, in translation into the primary tongue, is Nga-ariki (the heads). Just like the offspring of the first Mangaia colonists, who named themselves Ngariki, the Marquesan Na-iki with their name were claiming precedence and supremacy over all other warriors.

On the islands of Hiva, the Marquesans evolved their own civilisation, which is based on the fundamental civilisation of this area. The Hiva Oa became the centre for stonemasonry work. They expedited to the Tuamotus and Cook Islands and further eastwards, where they affected the cultures of Mangareva and Easter Island.

It' likely that some of the trips went through the Marquesas just off Hawaii. The Marquesas became a centre for the cultural growth and diffusion in the Eastern part, according to Havai'i in the centre of Polynesia. The Marquesans from Havai'i imported the pork and poultry, but the dogs were either abandoned or extinct.

Those pounds were so coveted by curiosity seekers that they became short on the isles. Germans with a strong industrial intuition were importing rocks from the Marquesas to Germany and produced a large amount of pounds to resell to the Marquesans. Marquises of the New Age quickly adopted the industrial practices of West civilisation and began to resell the items they were importing as old, genuine copies to the tourist and trader.

The Marquesans were the best Polynesian woodcarvers alongside the New Zealanders. The Marquesans created an unusual shape both in their homes and in their work. The Marquesan artisans showed great initiatives with the ornament. Out of the sparrow whale's mouth they made earrings in an exquisit style and finish.

Her breasts and headgear were one-of-a-kind. To curl the dark coat of such ornamentation in a continuous shaft, the coat was rolled firmly around a wood stick, wrapped in greens and heated in an underground furnace. Facial furnishings were also used as ornamentation, but a gray color was used.

Tahitian people used gray shavings from the dogs' tails to make fringe for chest ornamentation, and New Zealanders used similar brushes to decorate coats and amulets. Marquesans had no dog, so they used old men as a wellspring. As a grandpa heard the story of a future grandson, he grew his mustache to supply materials for the production of ornamentation for this kid.

The Marquesans' original headdress is an end circle, which consists of alternate plates of sculptured tortoise shell and swung naval shell. The Europeans supplied the Marquesans with volcanic plates and shirts, with which they made many of the headgear that today unexpectedly rest in the world's museum.

Marquesan people constructed terraced stones called me'ae for their sacred ritual.