Tikopia is a volcanic island in Temotu Province, in the independent nation of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Although most of Solomon Islands is Melanesian, ... In Tikopian …

Tikopia society has been divided into a large number of unilineal named descent groups, determined genealogically and tracing ancestry back for up to 10 generations. These groups …

2019年4月8日 · The Tikopians believed in many gods such as the the creators gods Atua Fafine and Atua I Raropuka and the sky god Atua I Kafika. They believed that spiritual beings (atua) …

These atua comprised the spirits of dead chiefs and their ritual elders and a number of major gods, most notably the eponymous gods of each clan: the Atua i Kafika, Atua i Tafua, Atua i …

Until the early present century all Tikopia were pagan, practicing a polytheistic religion. They believed in spirit beings called atua, a term including ghosts of the dead, ancestors, and spirit …

God name "Faivarongo" Polynesian / Tikopia: God of mariners. The eldest son of a being known as Ariki Kafika Tuisifo, he is a patron and guardian of seafarers and is also regarded as the …

There are now Tikopian Anglican priests who minister to the island, but some of the old rituals of the traditional “Work of the Gods” have been revived. However, the introduction of Christianity …

In the first essay in this document the author provides some general background information on Tikopia, then proceeds with specific data on suicide, ritual adzes, myths as an integral part of …

Tikopia, a Polynesian community near the eastern border of the Solomon Islands, is arguably the most thoroughly documented small-scale society in the ethnographic record. That …

This is an exhaustive and thorough account of the major religious cycle of the Tikopia, the Work of the Gods. Firth was present at or participated in many of the rites, and the result is a detailed …