Solomon Intel

Historians agree that the traditional tale of Ramo, and the giants of Solomon Islands, rose from real heroes, and heroine, who lived several thousand years earlier in a period often called the last Ice Age.  Recently discovered archaeological evidence sheds light on their true identity. It began at a time when tribes of men, women, hunters and gatherers, who of late, moved into the Solomon Islands some ten thousand years ago, after the last freeze, they inhabited the mountain of Alasa’a on the island of Mala’ita, and this is their story. Cave paintings of hunters and gatherers in the Australasia region some 30 000 years ago.   In Solomon Islands, south of the Pacific, I have spent twenty some years of my life, listening, and studying strange tales of giants, or gigantic race of human like beings, and giant creatures, like the dragon snake, or the wild boar, which tyrannized the indigenous peoples who were living on those islands.  The...

Our journey begins, in the dark islands of Western Solomon, romanticised by explorers as the land of head hunters. You will discern skull shrines and war canoes, the Tomoko. Be amazed by what the locals tell you, the culture and history of the people of Marovo and Roviana lagoon to New Georgia in Solomon Islands. Anthropological experts theorize that headhunting or the practice of taking and preserving a person's head after killing them stemmed from the belief that the head contained " soul matter" or life force, which could be harnessed through its capture.  skull shrine, Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands 2011 English anthropologist and Professor Peter Sheppard visited the communities in Roviana, west of Solomon Islands in 1976, and produced an in depth study of their society and beliefs, “the Archaeology of Headhunting in Roviana Lagoon, 1983”. He found that the main purpose of headhunting was the belief that by owning another person's skull, ...

The Ramo legend inspired local narrators to speak of ARUAñ Æ , the great mother goddess, who came to Malanta (Mala'ita Island), and  made mount Alasa’a her abode. She was the progenitor of all the gods on the mountain, and mount Alasa’a became known as the ‘home of the gods’. It was built on a monolithic stone foundation of rare quality that stretches right into the heavens.  When the first Ancestors walked the earth, and crossed land bridges of Australasia to settle on Malanta around the year 30 ooo BC. The gods on mount Alasa’a abhor their presence. They mark them to drink from the Kwai Rivers designed to kill them off the island. The mother goddess, however, saved them from the deluge, and instead make the water to cause them to speak different dialects. Mount Alasa'a overlooking the borders of west Kwaio and Langalanga lagoon, Malanta (Malaita Island), Solomon Islands 2013 One day, the mother goddess took her wrist band, filled them with black water insi...