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In Samoa, the village of Falealupo on the western side of Savaiʻi is the home of Nafanua. [4] Falealupo is also the site of the entryway into the spirit world Pulotu . [ 5 ] : 123 Often chiefs from distant villages and islands would come to Falealupo to seek Nafanua's blessings before beginning any military adventure.
The word sina also means 'white' or silver haired (grey haired in age) in the Samoan language. There is also an old Samoan song called Soufuna Sina based on a Sina legend. [5] Coconut shell showing the 'two eyes and mouth' of the eel. Local child taking a drink of water from the Mata o le Alelo pool in Matavai village, Safune village district ...
The Fagā Village Site is a major archaeological site in the United States territory of American Samoa. Located on the north shore of the island of Ta'u, it is, according to local oral history, one of the oldest settlements in all of the Samoan islands, and an important site in the formation of Samoan culture. The site includes a large number ...
The earliest history of Samoa concerns a political center in the easternmost Samoan islands of Manu'a, under the rule of the Tui Manu'a. In the Cook Islands to the east, the tradition is that Karika, or Tui Manu'a 'Ali's, came to the Cook Islands from Manu'a; suggesting that the rest of Polynesia was settled from Manu'a and Samoa.
Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the Samoan language.The group's home islands are politically and geographically divided between the Independent State of Samoa and American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.
Ulutogia is a village on the east coast of Upolu island in Samoa. The village is part of the electoral constituency (Faipule District) Aleipata Itupa i Luga which is part of the political district of Atua. It has a population of 202. [1] Ulutogia is approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes' drive from Apia, the country's capital.
The museum is located in Apia and is housed in the oldest building on the island, which is a former German colonial school. [1] The museum is funded by the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture and is the only government-funded museum dedicated to Samoan culture.
Faʻa Sāmoa consists of the Samoan language, customs of relationships, and culture, that constitute the traditional and continuing Polynesian lifestyle on Samoa and in the Samoan diaspora. It embraces an all-encompassing system of behavior and of responsibilities that spells out all Samoans' relationships to one another and to persons holding ...