Solomon Intel

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...

If world history was recorded on stone and paper, then the history of Mu and its people was recorded in blood. For over a thousand years the tradition of Mu ngiki and Mu ngava was kept alive by the gods through the incarnation of the priest chief, the Taukuka. A solid tattoo inked onto the body and worn as sacred paraphernalia by persons sworn as tribal leader and high priest. The Taukuka was also the sacred embodiment of the gods of Mu ngiki and Mu ngava. Taukuka Paul Sa'engeika of the Ngikobaka clan Mu ngiki 1972 Throughout the ages in what is now known as the Pacific Ocean. The Taukuka was a symbolic representation of a spiritual man as distinct to that of any ordinary man. For in the Taukuka's manifestation, virtues of uprightness and intellectual power is manifest, and connects the realm of the gods to man. The Taukaka guides his people with absolute power, knowledge, and spirituality as opposed to society being debased to mere animalistic characters in times of cha...