SUVILANA: The Giant
Once upon a time, on the island of Vella La Vella, there lived a Giant called Suvilana, and in those days, because of his enemies, he built a great wall, the Suvilana wall stones.
The stones were queried from a volcanic site on Vella La Vella Island. They said that in the old days of his trouble, Suvilana the Giant, some how, engineered one of the greatest architectural monument ever built on the island, and he dwelt there.
It could have been a city, and a tower, but the locals were cannibals, heathens, and head hunters, exceedingly, before Suvilana the Giant. Methinks, the Suvilana wall stones, spontaneously resembles Mayan philosophy, or the religion of human sacrifice.
There are thousands of piles of igneous rocks, on the east coast of Vella La Vella Island, the site is an active volcano, which locals believed, Suvilana collected his stones to build his wall.
One day, they maintained, Suvilana the Giant made for himself a war canoe - "the TOMOKO". They said that the original design of the Tomoko was attributed to Suvilana, the Giant's ingenuity in the Arts, and Craft.
He made his war canoe from bits and pieces of sea timber, sewed and glued together, as opposed to dug out canoes, or Oceania designed canoes, such as the Outrigger canoes, the Tepuke vessels, or the Tevaka boats.
Now, the locals of Vella La Vella Island believed Suvilana built his wall, and also attacked his enemies by hurling boulders, or igneous rocks down his wall stones. They said, it was his grandson, who mischievously mocked him, that even Suvilana, the Giant, cried out, he said;
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The Suvilana wall stones were very similar in structural engineering to Machu Pichu, or wall stones in Peru, South America |
The stones were queried from a volcanic site on Vella La Vella Island. They said that in the old days of his trouble, Suvilana the Giant, some how, engineered one of the greatest architectural monument ever built on the island, and he dwelt there.
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A Suvilana Wall 1000m high |
There are thousands of piles of igneous rocks, on the east coast of Vella La Vella Island, the site is an active volcano, which locals believed, Suvilana collected his stones to build his wall.
One day, they maintained, Suvilana the Giant made for himself a war canoe - "the TOMOKO". They said that the original design of the Tomoko was attributed to Suvilana, the Giant's ingenuity in the Arts, and Craft.
He made his war canoe from bits and pieces of sea timber, sewed and glued together, as opposed to dug out canoes, or Oceania designed canoes, such as the Outrigger canoes, the Tepuke vessels, or the Tevaka boats.
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TOMOKO, courtesy of Uriaupo Beach Resort Vella La Vella, on the opening ceremony of John F Kennedy Island in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands 2018. |
"Seeing that you hate instruction
An instructor of every artificer
I also will build another Sacrifice
of wood, of stone, of clay and blood
and you will fear my vows."
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Suvilana wall stones, Vella La Vella Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. South of the Pacific 2018. |
Having said thus, Suvilana departed out of Vella La Vella Island, and went into the land of Gatokae, and Vagunu, and into the Marovo Lagoon he came.
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