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THE WOMEN OF NAMUANA VILLAGE STILL PRESERVES A VERY STRANGE RITUAL;that of calling turtles from sea.if you visits
namuana village in sea the turtle calling ,your schooner anchor in beautiful bay right under the cliff.
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Families and residents in the village of Namuana, Fiji, have been carrying out this sacred and emotionally-charged turtle calling ceremony. I am here in the beating sun, high on the headland above Udelevu Beach, to see exactly what happens. The story goes that a beautiful island princess and her daughter were captured by warriors and held on a boat. As a storm threatened to capsize the vessel, the women morphed into turtles and escaped. This fable is now celebrated in a calling ceremony, as we can see, villagers stand shouting, laughing and chanting out to the ocean to bring the mythical turtle descendants home. Here's opening they make a safe return today.
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Many years ago, in the lovely village of Namuana on an island of Fiji lived a beautiful Princess Tinaicoboga. She was the wife of the chief and was very kind and beautiful. The people of the village loved and admired both of them.
The chief and his wife had one daughter, Raudalice, who often joined her mother in the water. On days both the mother and daughter would climb the cliffs beyond their village. There they could see the waters surrounding their land, and could watch the village warriors paddling their canoes out to sea.
One day they waded farther than usual. They hardly noticed how far they had gone when the wind to the east of the rocky shore began to pick up. The sound of the wind muffled the sound of the men in the distance, so the women never noticed them at all.
There was a large canoe sailing with fishermen from the village of Nabukelevu on the far side of the island. They had their eyes on the women from afar, and when they spotted them, they began to paddle without making them notice to the women and captured them in lieu of ransom from the chief of Namuana
But the God intervened and suddenly the sky turned black, the wind began to howl, and the once-calm sea began to churn. The fishermen tried their best to keep the canoe afloat but it was tossed by the wind here and there.
They were so busy fighting to save their own lives and their canoe that they lost their concentration on the two women they had captured. When they did at last look down, they saw that the bodies that had once been women had turned into two giant sea turtles.
They lifted up the turtles and tossed them into the heaving waves which helped the turtles easily and comfortably slip into the water. The moment they were safely beneath the surface, the sea grew calm, the wind grew still leaving a bright blue sky above.
Since then Tinaicoboga and Raudalice lived in the waters of that bay as turtles.Even today in Namuana, the women of the village, dressed in mourning clothes walk to the shore and stand and chant to their beloved turtles.
As the women chant, the giant turtles rise to the surface of the bright blue waters .
But sometimes they do not rise, and it is believed whenever someone from Nabukelevu is present, the turtles stay beneath the water, for they sense their enemies.
The chief and his wife had one daughter, Raudalice, who often joined her mother in the water. On days both the mother and daughter would climb the cliffs beyond their village. There they could see the waters surrounding their land, and could watch the village warriors paddling their canoes out to sea.
One day they waded farther than usual. They hardly noticed how far they had gone when the wind to the east of the rocky shore began to pick up. The sound of the wind muffled the sound of the men in the distance, so the women never noticed them at all.
There was a large canoe sailing with fishermen from the village of Nabukelevu on the far side of the island. They had their eyes on the women from afar, and when they spotted them, they began to paddle without making them notice to the women and captured them in lieu of ransom from the chief of Namuana
But the God intervened and suddenly the sky turned black, the wind began to howl, and the once-calm sea began to churn. The fishermen tried their best to keep the canoe afloat but it was tossed by the wind here and there.
They were so busy fighting to save their own lives and their canoe that they lost their concentration on the two women they had captured. When they did at last look down, they saw that the bodies that had once been women had turned into two giant sea turtles.
They lifted up the turtles and tossed them into the heaving waves which helped the turtles easily and comfortably slip into the water. The moment they were safely beneath the surface, the sea grew calm, the wind grew still leaving a bright blue sky above.
Since then Tinaicoboga and Raudalice lived in the waters of that bay as turtles.Even today in Namuana, the women of the village, dressed in mourning clothes walk to the shore and stand and chant to their beloved turtles.
As the women chant, the giant turtles rise to the surface of the bright blue waters .
But sometimes they do not rise, and it is believed whenever someone from Nabukelevu is present, the turtles stay beneath the water, for they sense their enemies.
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