RAMO: The Giant
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...