Long before Tonga was around there lived a pacific hero that roamed the pacific ocean searching for a place to find an island. And his name was Maui, the great legendary hero of the pacific ocean. He needed a hook to use to find a island so he went to Samoa and found a man who was called 'Tonga tau mata'u' ! Maui went to the man's little workshop to see if the man would lend a hook for Maui to use. Maui had a conversation with Tonga and he agreed to get out his hooks for Maui to choose only if Maui would name the island after him. Maui made a promise to name the island after Tonga but before he was off to find the island he had to choose a hook. Tonga took out his collection of hooks for Maui to choose. All of them were bright colors and were stunning. But Maui had caught something else and it was a scrubby and dirty old blue hook! Maui choose that hook which had Tonga confused as in why he choose that hook but Tonga was fine with it and then off Maui was in search for a Island. Maui searched and searched and ended up finding a green peace of island that he caught down the bed of the ocean. He than got ready to pull the island up to where he was by getting his hook and throwing it down wards to the island. Maui pulled the island up to the ocean's surface. " It's beautiful " said Maui. "I will call it Tonga as promised "! THE END! This book was written by David Riley If you are wondering. This book was super creative and fun to listen to as our teacher was reading it.
The legend of kava Tonga is one of the most known stories in Tonga. My aunty told me the story once and it was pretty sad to hear about. So there lived a couple that were Tongan and only had one kid which was their daughter ' Kava '! They didn't have much at the island because they were the only ones that lived there and besides, the island wasn't able to grow things live fruits or anything eatable. One day the king and his men's came to the island where the couple and their daughter lived to rest and find food. The king ordered his men's to go and find some food for them to eat well the king stayed and rest. One particular man went deep into the green and dark mini jungle and some how bummed into the couple. The man asked the couple if they had any food anywhere to take to the king to eat. The man and his wife agreed to find some food although they knew they didn't have any thing that was eatable in the island. So the kings man left in search for a place to rest before going ahead and finding some food. The couple went some where to think about what they were going to do because they had no meat in the island for the king to eat. My aunty told me that the couple had to kill their only daughter so then the king would be able to eat some meat. The daughter was very sick and so the couple already knew that she would die. They decided to Barry her because the king refused to and he said to not do anything and just leave her to rest. The king thanked them for the tough decision they had to make and for the sacrifice. The king and his men's together with the couple gathered around the place they berried her. A few days later the couple's returned to where their daughter was berried and found two things growing on top which was kava and sugar cane. They saw a little mouse eat the kava and for some reason the mouse was walking as if it was drowsy. The mouse then ate the sugar cane and then got better as he walked away. But this was a pretty rough going Story but it's a great way to learn the story behind kava and what's important about it in the Tongan way.
Task Description: Like I said on my recent blog posts you may have found out that it is Tongan language week. As our focus for this weeks reading we had to read a book that was related to this weeks special occasion and was called, "Keep the traditions alive" . We had to find 5 things we found help Tongan people keep the traditions alive.
