A book that discusses pre-Christian practices in Samoa was launched in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday night.
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Absent from classroom lessons and mentioned in whispers if at all, many of those practices were banished behind a wall established to keep quiet things of “the time of darkness.”
Whispers and Vanities, Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion, opens up ancient practices for discussion, inspired by the work of Tui Atua
Tupua Tamasese Efi, a paramount matai of Samoa among his other positions past and present – like being the current Head of State.
Fed by 38 contributors through essays and poems in the book the discussion is likely to bust down the wall of silence behind which a large part of the past has been consigned.
Especially if it finds an audience among Samoan youth everywhere, because they will be introduced to a part of their past long hidden.
It will be an emotional discovery as explained by two of their number who spoke at the launch last night.
It will be uncomfortable – one of the contributors titles his essay, Exploring X-Rated Cultural Practices.
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