Softly Fiji
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In the distant hills of Sabeto in Nadi lies the shape of two sleeping giants looking towards heaven while the silhouette of Vomo Lailai Island is a face looking to heaven and its southern face is the face of a native Fijian looking towards Vomo Levu Island. Along the coasts of Vitogo district live the Naduanitu people or those who say that there is only one God while in Drauniivi are the dinking places of the twelve tribes and the place of salt for Lot’s wife while above them stand the two highest mountains in Fiji of Tomaniivi or Adam and Eve which the British tried to rename as Mount Victoria after their Queen Victoria. In the hills from the district of Nalawa in the West to Namatakula on the coast of Nadroga in the South are the Father and the Son remembered by custom of Tako-Lavo.The word Tako meaning “Father,” and Lavo meaning “the Son”.
The words of “mana” that fell from heaven in the desert are remembered in the great oratory tradition of our people, of saying “mana” after words of blessings on the people have been pronounced. All such blessings ending with the words “mudu o”, “to end with He who comes in the pillar of the clouds”, though changed by Snake Worshippers “to end in Nakauvadra”, a mountain range where their leader Degei had become a snake worshipper.
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The loss of the father and the son resulted in war and cannibalism in Fiji. Learn of the original worship of the father and the son in Fiji. How the son took away his protection and the land fell into the period of the “Rooster Wars.” With the advent of the Christian missionaries in Fiji, the country entered a period of the “Return of the Father and Son.”
Christian Missionaries then advised cession to Queen Victoria as Defender of the Faith, and arms were laid down on 10 October 1874, to take up the rule of law. The country then entered a period of “taking up arms” from the coup of 1987, the attempted coup of 2000, the coup of 2006, and the Declaration of a new legal order in 2010.
With the Constitution Commission of 2012, Fiji now enters a period of “The Search for Answers” as it tries to go back to constitutional rule. The author was called by the Lord to help the Fijian people. This he did from 1986 to 2012 and for the first time he reveals some of the hard facts behind it.
About the Author
Kitione Vuataki was born in 1957 on the island of Cikobia in Fiji. As a villager, he was brought to the new civilization that required education as a means of moving the native Fijians forward. He graduated with a bachelor of laws degree from Victoria University of New Zealand, twenty-eight years later in 1985. The author was then called by the Lord to help the Fijian people. This he did after being admitted to the Bar in Fiji from 1986 to 2012. By 2007, he was awarded a General Excellence Award for Outstanding Legal Practitioner of the Year by the Fiji Law Society. As a native Fijian lawyer, he has been involved and is still being involved in a lot of indigenous issues from 1986 to 2012. He is currently residing in Lautoka, Fiji, with his wife, son, and grandkids, who love to come over and stay with their grandfather every now and then.