TAUKUKA: The Last Priest Chief of Mu

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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 chaos, and total anarchy. 

In 1972 the picture of the last Taukuka Paul Sa'engeika of the Ngikobaka Clan was taken in Honiara, Solomon Islands. He was the last priest chief and persona of the sky god, Semoana. He became a Christian in 1938 and was baptized and named Paul in the South Sea Evangelical Mission. Today the South Sea church has flourished in both Mu ngiki and Mu ngava (Bellona and Rennell Island), and many years have passed since, yet this picture cannot be expressed in words what he might have evangelized. 

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