Imagine that you are a news channel reporter and you visited the Namuana village to witness the strange ritual of the turtle calling. Draft a live TV report of the event. [Hints :- Description of the location, spectators, details of the event etc.
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Namuana
Good morning XYZ state, this is your very own reporter Abc reporting live from Namuana village.
Namuana is a village in Fiji. The women of Namuana village still preserve the strange ritual of calling turtles from the sea. All the maidens of the village assemble on the rocks above the water and begin to sing a melodious chant. Slowly, one by one, giant turtles rise to lie on the surface in order to listen to the strange chanting.
After a few minutes, we are invited to stand up and come forward, as a handful of men climb to the top of a large boulder and start chanting. They look out at the sparkling ocean with their hands over their eyes, protecting them from the sunlight.
Sure enough, after a few more minutes, there is some excitement at the top of the rock and we are urged to move further forward.
Earlier, we had been warned not to talk during the sacred ritual, or to take photos or point. The latter proves difficult for many of us when – to our astonishment – we spot a small sea turtle swimming across the horizon towards the shore.
Families from Namuana Village have been conducting the turtle-calling ceremony for generations.
Legend says that in the 1800s when cannibalism and tribal warfare in Fiji were rife, the village chief’s much-loved wife and daughter would often go fishing with hand lines.
One day, they were catching so many fish, they stayed too long and were trapped on a sandbank when the tide rose.
A raiding war party from neighboring village Nabukelevu, where Semi is from, captured them and placed them in the bottom of their double-hulled canoe. But the gods were not pleased with their actions and on the way back to their village a storm hit.
Fearing they were being punished, they went below to release their prisoners but found they had turned into turtles. After they returned them to the sea, the weather returned to calm.
The princess and her mum are said to have lived in the bay as turtles ever since, returning to shore when they are called by the still-devoted villagers. The process begins early in the morning with the village ceremony, which Semi attends.
After the turtles' show, the villagers return home to continue singing and drinking kava, a sedative drink made from the root of the kava plant which is popular throughout Fiji.
Semi says he first went to the village in 1988 to encourage them to perform the ceremony for tourists. Eventually, they agreed, conducting the ritual for passengers aboard Captain Cook’s first Lau Islands cruise last October, and again for our voyage.