The Legend of Kava Tonga
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2015
- The legend of Kava Tonga has come to life. In a harrowing story of love, loyalty and sacrifice, this short film gives you an insight into the importance of Kava to the Tongan culture.
Shot in Tonga in with all local actors The Legend of Kava Tonga was made as part of a project Digital Fananga by Malosi pictures 2015.
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I'm Samoan and I really enjoyed watching this short Tongan legendary story.....❤
I love these beautiful pictures of the Polynesian cultures. They don’t get enough credit in my opinion. This was a great way to tell a precious story. Such a beautiful culture, and such beautiful and powerful people who lived upon the pacific. True warriors in my eyes, and should be shown to the world. I wanted to give my thanks for all the short films everyone has been creating over the years. God bless
I love these beautiful pictures of the polynesian cultures too.❤
This was really good..And im not even Tongan but maori but its like i could understand and relate this.My foreman was tongan he was 71 years old and the hardest worker out of everyone.He even showed up heaps of us young workers.He spoke his language fluently and had love for his culture.All we ever listen to in the truck was the tongan news on radio P.I in auckland.He was very proud of his culture and i respect him so so much.He reminds me of the old koroua in this movie telling the storyHis name was Michael Pauhila and a very hard man but also humble and was full of the old school styles.Love the tongan brothers..From the maor ibrother of aotearoa..Awesome
woah such a good traditional story. ... my family is from vanuatu. ... and all over the islands we have similar stories. ... we are all one big family ✌
Isaa... my Pu (grandmother) used to call me 'Toko' but I'm Fijian didn't know it was Tongan too.
Maybe because the province (Lau) in which I'm from our culture is very much Tongan influenced.
Malo Vakalevu!! from Lau Fiji Is ❤❤
I see tongan and Fijian in looks
I'm Indian. Stayed in fiji islands. I'm introduced to kava. After watching this I understood the importance of kava in Tonga. It's a symbolic love,respect and sacrificing. Very sad n brought tears in my eyes. LOve u guys..... Lot's of respect.....
It's called YAQONA in Viti, not kava.
@@NasinuWarrior85 tell Lami Kava that. 😂
this is why i hate the commercialization of kava in the western world (kava bars, flavored kava sachets). It becomes stripped of cultural importance and reverence. Kava didn't die to be served in a bar called 'Kavasutra' foh
That's down the road from where I live
I don't agree. The word "Western World" is stripping others of experiencing the culture. It is a safe alternative to Alcohol and when people realize they like it, they will research what is in it and where it came from. You are over generalizing.
Yoza sistah
Facts. These palangi's will never understand and these Poly's selling out our culture for money are a shame.
@@milehighbry8584 Screw your experience. This drink was never made to replace an alcoholic addiction. If that's what they want, they can take their ass to alcoholics anonymous. Too many Western people bastardize my culture by nitpicking what fits with them thus stripping it of its meaning and sacredness. Then they wanna call it an "experience". Well this experience you speak of is to be lived, raised by and passed down. Also to the Polynesians who sell our culture for money, shame on them. This video only tells one aspect of its importance to us as opposed to hundreds. My ancestors cultivated, bled and died over it's existence. Something you will never "experience" at a bar. Only a bunch of ignorant man buns hiding behind the words "Cultural experience".
wow im Mexican and this touched the heart. good ol Kava ey
LoL we love us some burritos. LoL
Yeah I'm Mexican too. My boyfriend is Mexican he works concrete I ended up working concrete also. There is so much I don't understand about this culture. Why did he sacrifice his daughter again.... 😬
Duty, loyalty, and fear of repercussion were placed above the guidance of Spirit. The warrior listened to his na’au. He would have stopped the sacrifice. Thank you for this story. I will never touch Kava without understanding and respect.
This shows how dedicated Tongans are with kaveinga.
I am from vanuatu , we have the same mythology but the difference is that we drink kava which I call it in my dialect "Nikaha" to honor the gods of the weather call " matitik" and ask for the prosperity for the gods of the trees and fruits .
Loved how the Legend has come to life. To understand how important the kava is and where it came from. Love seeing my Mother's eldest brother #Fakauho my #FaeTangata as the storyteller and the young boy is my 1st cousin's son #CypressMaka #Kolovai #Uiha
I remember hearing this legend when I was a kid. Many legends like this. The one about Hina and Sinilau is another favorite of mine. 💯✊🏾🇹🇴
Such a sad, but beautiful story!
Some of the words were the same as Hawaiian, with the same meaning.
Aloha from Hawai'i
I'm solomon islanders I really love this movie, sorry for her.
Did I just watch a very awesome Sacrafice movie😭😥😪😔☺😊😀😁😄
that was the greatest story of loyalty and sacrifice I've ever heard.
Love this. I would love to see more Tongan made films about our culture & legends. 🥰
omg. a lot of the tongan words i heard sound and mean the same thing in the samoan language. awesome video!
Same race but different nation meaning tribes all.polynesians.
I'm a part maori and part Niuean, and this is very good to watch about Tonga history, Fakaue Lahi=Thank you
Thank you Tonga for bringing kava to Fiji.
Not many know the word kava belongs to Tonga n the story origins malo
Very well-produced short film on the legend of kava. I do love Tongan kava. It provides a very euphoric lift and sense of well-being, while being easy to drink. Thanks!
Im not tongan but the sacrifice of the daughter broke my heart. God bless to all people!
some kava I heard from others are called kava new guinea, some say they use kava to catch fish. very intresting performance, wish to watch more of this kava movie. tearful, n very well perform. pls make another legend movie, yes it taste dirt but to calm down from hard working.
I'm Samoan and wow amazing I didn't know this happened so sad no wonder my Tongan friend never told me about this wow amazing story sorry for what too u Tongans sorry uso
Good to see productions like this. History and culture is important. Especially in teaching ones like myself about how there are alot of small things that our parents got us to do to keep us in touch with our home land. Solid video 👍✊
I'm Hawaiian but man the love and loyalty is strong in tonga
Teine Samoa here..I always ❤❤❤ our culture/poly's/any culture history/story..Mesmerizing, so many of us taking things 4 granted nowdays..OVERALL, 👍👍👍..I❤IT..🤙🤙🤙
From Port Vila, Vanuatu - we have the same story over kava here. Its a plant that will bring peace to everyone who drinks kava. We might also know the exact island that the Tui Tonga landed but that's another story :-)
Pls tell us more tokoua there’s recently been evidence of the first ppl of tonga came from Vanuatu I need to make there connections between us
Alot of you guys don't know that back before christianity in Tonga flesh was at one point food!. The fishes in the water, nor pigs, or any other leavings was as important as human flesh. As for this story, "because there was only one family in the Island and lord knows how long they've been there far from the main Island to know changes, food from water wasn't high enough to serve the King". That's why they made such decision. I grew up learning about this story ever since I could even spell Kava with capital letter and I had my questions aswell. If you guys didn't know there are some portrayals from different villages inTonga about this amazing story this days. But this is the real story, that's honesty and if you hear any different story from this one that's one of the fake one🌴
The one good thing the white man brought, Christianity.
wow exactly how my grandfather told me the story..beautiful
+BIGGIE SMOOVE yup my father to
I enjoy any Tongan content, this is such a treat. I enjoy hearing the language and having this little showcase of Tongan talent.
I’m from Vanuatu and coming from a South Pacific region with 80 varieties of different kava to be exact, we on the other hand have another twisted kava history on here.
If to anyone’s interest, long story short it is based on domestic violence where a woman from the island of Pentecost cheated on her husband and he ended up murdering her; cut off her head and dug it separating it to the rest of her body organs. Her natty hair later then sprouted and grew to the Kava roots we now drink today .
All in all given all these South Pacific kava history and myths I do believe kava is from a Goddess herself .
Tankiu tumas !
Wow! That’s beautiful and sad. Very similar story though
Great job.This tells so many people why Kava is some important to our culture as Tongans and many others
Tonga had some mean barbers back then.
Yeah but the belts are worse
Val Venus oiauuueee!😂
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OI IM TONGAN STOP
This was good.. Man to see a film on a Tongan story (kava) is really exciting and cool. Back then I always wanted to see films on Tongas folklore or stories on Tongas ancient times. Very cool and neat. Also I recently found out that theres a film festival that takes place in tonga.. Its really neat to see Tonga being more open to new platforms or new interests just like film. By the way this piece on kava even draws me to get into more of my Tongan culture and history. Thanks for the upload. Hope to see more works.
Thank you for this production, it is very well made.
A story of loyalty, respect and to honour!! Truely proud of my Tongan roots !! Characters that was weaved (like our mats ) and pounded (like our ngatus) from birth!!
Others will never understand, calling it stupidity lol but we know it is part of our DNA!! lol
where was the loyalty, respect and honour to his daughter. He killed her to feed some fat fucking king at least the king had the decency to not eat her even though it was to late the moron of a father already killed her. i wonder how proud you would feel if your father and mother agreed to kill you to feed some king you've never met?
Our neigbouring country, they work similar to us living in Papua New Guinea. I love watching and thanks for uploading this video especially for us pacific nation.
Tongan and Fijian customs are very similar even some of our words. In the olden days, Kava is only drank on very special occasions. But now its been drank every night and how its been introduced to the western world kinda fades its meaning and its a shame...
proud Fijian mad Love for my Tokos
Kava is a Tongan word.. the real name for kava in Fijian is yungkonae
Tongan and Fijians had inter-racial marriages in the Past, Tongans ancestors came from Samoa, and mixed with Fijian, became TONGANS, although Fiji became an empire and tried to invade everybody, started wit Tonga then Samoa, several battles happened. Do you not study these history in school?
love homie
I am Tongan but our earliest ancestors were from Fiji. Even our finest warriors were from Fiji.
@@crunchydinkens2824 some not all Tongans had Fijian blood. (I'm Tongan myself) and I know some Tongans who had they family tree made right from before.They had either Samoan ancestors or pure blood.
Tongans are descendants Samoans. A tribe that broke away from its people. And also Polynesians and Micronesians migrated from Eastern parts of Asia.
Awesome and educational. This couple is a real couple in life whose girls I went to school an all girls school with. The girls are here in U.S but I saw that their parents are still back in the island. Love our traditionals and the usage of kava in many occasions back in our homeisland as well in overseas. Like the saying, KEEP THE KULJAH (culture). Ofa atu.
Kava is a symbol of loyalty, dedication and hard work
I, really enjoyed watching the history of your traditions. Hopefully, this is just the beginning...
Wow. I'm not tongan so I don't know much about Tongan history but wow 😭😍
Brilliant Legend, your video was great! Make more great videos like these! You've earned yourself a subscriber.
Very well put together and very humbling to watch , thank you .
Mālō aupito... great production on Tongan history 🇹🇴 ❤️🇹🇴
I'm from Tonga and Samoa its very interesting to watch something like this and is very inspirational
thank you for that cuzzies, that went straight to the heart...
dude I see the coconut tree in the back
Imagine if we didn’t have technology for these past years. We’d have to tell stories like this man.
I would agree with that
Good to see more Pacific stories being made. Kia Ora.
This is AWESOME...Hope to see more of this production.
in the future and LESS hulohula on the FB or YOU TUBE...Many thanks to the Coconet TV
for this beautiful clip.ofaatu moe lotu...from Anchorage, Alaska USA.
i have a tongan guy at my school and his name is tonga.
I cried watching this😢
Thank you so much for this wondeful little film.!
I have drunk Kava for 17 years now, always with some ceremony and great respect. It has given me much peace and pleasure. It rounds the mind and removes the bumps.
when you see how they use Kava in my country Kiribati you will be amazed on how they are misusing it. Kava bars have pool tables, Darts and more. They treat kava like drinking alcohol.
ZeOutLaW Bon te koaua anne bro! I always drank kava with Tongans in Australia and always adhered to the solemn but social and relaxing scene it entailed. Went to Tarawa to visit family and ended up going to a kava bar and it felt more like a pub than an actual kalapu/tabo n nangkona. Though outer Kiribati Islands still keep it more traditional, Tarawa was something else.
if the choice is between alcohol and kava: There's a Hawaiian saying, a man who drinks kava stays a man, a man who drinks liquor becomes a beast. Kava is also grown in Vanuatu, and Hawaii and countless other islands, all with different traditions. If you want to keep it sacred on your island, good for you. But kava doesn't belong to Kiribati, or even Tonga, alone.
Cuvtixo D Im Hawaiian, and we don’t drink ‘awa (kava) for recreational use, its used ONLY for ceremony.
Great work on this very greatful that someone took the time to share this .
Great story and well executed. Malie Simi and Sefo
low key I kind of tangi'd my eyes out hoi! What a great story. Can I be in the next production lol Much ofaz from America (TEXAS) GO COWBOYS!!! HAHAHAHAHA
i really like this in my childhood i use 2 watch dis and was so scared and the man dat was talkin about how dey name the plant kava is my grandpa love you gramps
Omg what dad will sacrifice their daughter for another human.
You got to observe it in the context of the time not our time.
If you know your history, than you would know that kings were held at high esteem and even at times, they were seen as gods.
Now this is where kava comes from
This is a true story. Legends of old in Samoa & Tonga, Hawaii, etc all talk of sacrifices made for the greater good. Love for FAMILY especially.
Thankyou really enjoyed it. Ofa atu
Malo aupito, this is an amazing video to remind us the important of our identity ofa atu
thanks for this
sad to sacrifice only daughter...good to know Tongan kava and legend..Malo
Great history lesson and well performed 👍
So sad...beautiful history
Thats the same way i was told the story was. Shout Out Kalapu Halafo'ou out of East Palo Alto, Ca.
brilliant! Job well done to all involved.
2019 👏👏 loved it & ty for sharing 👌👌
this is why i drink Heineken. cool story 👍
Thanks for the the recommendation RUclips
For a moment I thought they were gonna serve the daughter to the king to eat.
That's exactly what happened
Yes, absolutely rigjt
I’m not Tongan but am from one of the islands (Samoa) but find this discography very interesting
Thankyou for kava! It's given me power over alcohol for over 4 years . BULA!
beautiful story
Beautiful Tonga
Wow! great story. thanks
That was beautiful
'Oku nau lea faka-tonga 'I tonga. Pea ko e talanoa fakamamahi taha ia kuo o fanongo ai!😔❤🙏
Wish my grandfather was like this 💯
love this...malie NOva and Kato...maloo pukepuke a fufula.....ofa atu
Wow! Amazing but difficult story.
I've always wanted to know this story, thanks C coconet! Maile aupito x
Thanks so much, hope to see more of these.
+Lavinia Moala
Same here...
Mario Datzit (:
Very good video clip
Great story...
That was insane....
Those who hate this it’s your fault that you’re not TONGAN
I don't know how many times I seen this but there's always bloody onions in here 😞 ...lol
Malo e ma'u tala fkhisitolia. Neongo pe ete taka holo ihe ngahi fonua muli ka kuote laukau aki pe ete toto'i Tonga. Tonga mou;unga kihe lotot.
Wow amazing 🙏🇹🇴
Mahalo nui loa for this story of history of Kava Tonga.
Sad but great story,
learned somethin today tnx
This made me tear up. I was wanting her to get saved and for there to be a love story. There was no need to kill the girl, unless they were going to eat her...and they didn't. I know traditional stories of all cultures are usually tragic and you're supposed to objectively listen to them from a scholarly perspective if you are an outsider, but dang.. this got me in the feeling hole.
I remember acting out this story in a Tongan church play