Dr. Opeti Taliai TedEx Reaction - Ep.027

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
  • Dr. Opeti Taliai TedEx Reaction - Ep.027 a look at oral history and the relationship/origin ideas for Tonga and Samoa

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  • @BarHawa
    @BarHawa 7 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for touching on the Taliai vid with Tongan insight and responses. In doing so you uphold the integrity of our Talatupu'a. Tons of people are taking it beyond the the theoretical and hold it to be factual lol.
    Malo e mo'ui moe lave'i mai moe kii talanoa koeni.

  • @umutangata
    @umutangata 8 місяців тому +3

    William Mariner called Samoa “Hamoa” back in early 1800s. Appreciate all the work & incite on Tongan history from y’all!

  • @originalclaymoreboy728
    @originalclaymoreboy728 8 місяців тому +5

    Rarotongans and tahitians can agree with the Tui manu'a to us we call them Manuka Tere Manu'a - tere (Great manuka). We have no stories of going there and paying tribute to them cause of some umiti but we sing old songs of Havaiki,Kuporu and Manuka Tere. Songs and stories rarely sung and told today because we mainly speak on old legends and Christianity.
    And on fiji the first people to fiji was not black they were the same people as the rest of Polynesia. This is where the wars broke out in fiji over the control of the lands this is where samoa come in cause samoa recognized the original people of fiji as their own. Fijians today will claim they are the start of our people I'm not fijian but get a couple fijians into this podcast and they'll say their empire came before any other empire in the pacific.

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому

      We do not dispute the existence of the Tui Manua. We dispute whether a real political, religious, or actual Tui Manua empire existed.
      Hawaii/Savaii and other areas in Polynesia refer to the origin of Tangaloa and Maui before they settled in Tonga-Hawaii is their origin, which is a faraway land (Samoa isn't far from Tonga).
      Lastly, Tongans have shared that Fijians have been in Fiji for a very long time and have never expressed that there were people in Fiji before the Fijians arrived.
      Any links that share more on your information would be greatly appreciated, Malo.

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@PolynesianEyes you dispute that but come up with laughable stories about Tongans coming from the Americas and the Tongan empire covering all of Polynesia? Yeah right 😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому

      @@increasepeace4996 :)

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому

      ​@@PolynesianEyes still waiting for that proof toko 😂

    • @fvaise29
      @fvaise29 7 місяців тому

      😂😂😂

  • @vailima49aston99
    @vailima49aston99 27 днів тому +1

    Nobody will ever know the truth about our Polynesian history because it wasn’t written down, so it’s better to just live our lives as 1 people and be happy life’s short especially for us polys 😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  20 днів тому

      in some ways true but also good to try and understand as much as we can

  • @tevitatoefoki452
    @tevitatoefoki452 7 місяців тому +1

    Have you guys read Pita Vi's journal? He mentioned the last war against Laufili Tonga (Tu'i Tonga).

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  7 місяців тому +1

      If I am not mistaken those were battles in Haapai and before he became the TT. I also heard some rumblings that the Catholic records contrdict the Methodist records. Where the Methodist records says Tupou I won in Haapai but the Catholic records say Laufilitonga won - I suspect politics is playing a major role in the contradicting accounts

    • @tevitatoefoki452
      @tevitatoefoki452 7 місяців тому

      @PolynesianEyes interesting, where can I get the Catholic information?
      It's funny because the same goes with the Pea fortress. My father will have some debatable discussions with the Pea. Their side of the story is way different from ours (Wesleyan), and we are the descendants of Valu from Utulau.
      The only argument is that the Wesleyan history was written by Tongans and Englishman, and the Catholics were written by the Frenchman only, am I right?

  • @ptschaumkel
    @ptschaumkel 7 місяців тому +4

    Most Tongans don’t even know their own history.

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  7 місяців тому +1

      Our hope to to play a small role in address this issue. Malo

  • @touie1404
    @touie1404 8 місяців тому +1

    So technically, if the political, titles, land inheritance are passed down through the eldest male, that would make our current King, from Tupou the fourth a Tungí or Tu’i Ha’atakalaua instead of Tupou. They’re basically using their mother’s last name..

  • @mellow267east
    @mellow267east 7 місяців тому +4

    Everyone knows that the first Tui Manu’a king is Tui Manuikipedia😂😂😂

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +1

      It's hilarious how Tongan royals know about the Tui Manu'a yet low born commoners are oblivious 😂

    • @mellow267east
      @mellow267east 7 місяців тому +4

      @@increasepeace4996 funny how your names peace yet we see you in every comment section bashing tongans who know their history change it to increaseki’o😂😂

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому

      Bashing Tongans my ass. I only clown certain Tongans who LIE about history. So calm down Mr. Angry 😂

    • @umutangata
      @umutangata 7 місяців тому +2

      @@mellow267eastbro that guy needs counseling or therapy. He’s literally under every single Tongan’s comment. I mean I’ve seen Samoan haters, but this guy’s obsession is on another level. It’s unhealthy.

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому

      ​@@umutangata show me which comment I hated on Tongans? Go ahead. I literally have Tongan family and friends. So don't even try 😂😂😂

  • @originalclaymoreboy728
    @originalclaymoreboy728 8 місяців тому +2

    This is where you guys need to understand about our people and our diet. We had no pigs or horses lamb and cows to eat. Our diet was based around the sea. Our people are sea people and so what if samoans brought seafood to tonga to pay tribute to the tongan king. Ypu forget the food the sea provides. All types of fish l, samoans were experts of catching tuna fish. You got crabs tukumisi eels sharks etc. That's why we based our die at around the moana. The only land food we had was rats birds chickens and dogs plus the plantation back then food was worth far more then gold. And another thing theirs no stories of eastern polynesians saying they were under the Rule of the Tui Tonga or paying any tribute to them for so called Inasi.

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +1

      Pigs were in Tonga before European contact. No doubt, seafood was an essential part of the diet, but this does not confirm anything. The only real evidence of an empire seems to be in Tonga. None of the other references have physical evidence to confirm Tonga.

  • @originalclaymoreboy728
    @originalclaymoreboy728 8 місяців тому +2

    How do you guys know he got his theories from the kava tonga?? I've been to dozens of faikava and you do not wanna know half the things I've seen and heard among the kakai tonga he😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +2

      Hahahahaha you may have been at the exact Kava Circles we are talking about hahahaha

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому

      It's the only way they can dismiss his views 😂

    • @mikeoxmaul5465
      @mikeoxmaul5465 Місяць тому

      @@increasepeace4996moepiii bring some receipts of Tuimanu’a empire please or your return will be invalid😂

  • @jamestonga6281
    @jamestonga6281 8 місяців тому +3

    💯💯💯 Taliai, surprisingly, a ha’amoa from Tonga lol

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +1

      Everyone has a right to their beliefs - but we definitely disagree with his position

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@PolynesianEyes but he's a scholar. What are you? A returned missionary? 😂

    • @umutangata
      @umutangata 7 місяців тому +1

      @@increasepeace4996mf went to faikava couple times and all of a sudden think he know Tongan history 🤣🤣

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@umutangata he has a PhD genius. What do you have? A forklift license? 😂😂😂

    • @mikeoxmaul5465
      @mikeoxmaul5465 Місяць тому

      Taliai is a Vava’u name

  • @jamestonga6281
    @jamestonga6281 8 місяців тому +1

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @originalclaymoreboy728
    @originalclaymoreboy728 8 місяців тому +1

    Pretty much just threw this guy under the bus the whole time😂 and I've heard alot of tongans who agree with this guy.

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому +2

      They will throw ANYONE under the bus if they don't like what they say. It could be the King of Tonga himself and they won't care 😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому

      That is one way to put it - he did his own "throwing under the bus" during his presentation. Nothing personal, just dialogue.

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому

      @@increasepeace4996 once again you make me smile :)

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому +2

      ​​@@PolynesianEyes don't lie. It's personal 😂
      You're angry with Taliai, Mahina and any other Tongan scholar for confirming what we have been saying about the Tui Manu'a.
      Let out your anger toko 😂

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@PolynesianEyes good. Your video made me laugh too. So I wanted to return the favor 😂

  • @CLYDEMORE
    @CLYDEMORE 8 місяців тому +4

    imagine getting a phd from a foreign university on your own history 💀
    The grift😆

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому +2

      And what PhD do you have? 😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +3

      It is a hilarious idea to think about lol

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +5

      I wouldn’t be surprised if you were a Karen with the vaccine and mask a few years ago lol

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  8 місяців тому +3

      I agree @increase invitation is still open - as they say - “Give the people what they want!” Hahahahaha

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 8 місяців тому

      ​@@FactsOVERfeelings112 coward? I don't see you on any podcast. Foh 😂

  • @leont5096
    @leont5096 7 місяців тому +3

    Opeti sole ai tae must have been paid alot of money by a samoan to make up this kai mumu`a fable😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @originalclaymoreboy728
      @originalclaymoreboy728 7 місяців тому

      Fark up😂

    • @leont5096
      @leont5096 7 місяців тому

      @@originalclaymoreboy728u n ur girl friend increase the polo go fark each other 😂😂

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +1

      Always blaming Samoans. Must be exhausting 😂

    • @PolynesianEyes
      @PolynesianEyes  7 місяців тому +1

      We will give him the benefit of the doubt but it is definitely a question that needs to be answered

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@leont5096 you sound angry 😂

  • @increasepeace4996
    @increasepeace4996 7 місяців тому +1

    You both should do a rection for the interview of Siaosi Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha, father of George Tupou the Second. It concerns where the name of Tonga came from. It also proves the Tui Manu'a predates the Tu'i Tonga line. I would like to see you two try to explain this away 😂

    • @alfredtameifuna8928
      @alfredtameifuna8928 6 місяців тому

      @increasepepelo Ssshhhooollleeee 😂🤣😂 Siaosi is a kava drinker story teller 🤣💀🤡
      I thought you said you are a Professor? 🤣😂🤣😂🤦💀🤡 Professor of what? Fufu? or Professor of Pepelo? It's either one or the other... let me know where you are and I'll bring some Vailimas and then after I'll Sasa you all over Onehunga 😂🤣😂🤣😎😏

    • @increasepeace4996
      @increasepeace4996 6 місяців тому +1

      @@alfredtameifuna8928 he was the nephew of the last Tu'i Tonga and grandson of Tupou I. Show some respect to royalty, commoner 🤣

    • @alfredtameifuna8928
      @alfredtameifuna8928 6 місяців тому

      ​@@increasepeace4996😂🤣 NO HE WASN'T bushpig moepi... You don't know anything about Tongan history like I said you got no idea moemimi... 😂🤣🤡☠️💀🤦
      Stop the fufu and go look for a wife and get off here bush bloodlines 😂🤣🤡☠️🤦

    • @alfredtameifuna8928
      @alfredtameifuna8928 6 місяців тому

      ​@@increasepeace4996 You absolutely have no idea about Tongan history you know why fiapoko moepi? Because your not Tongan.
      This name you bring up is who again slave??? 😂 Mālo professor pepelo beer talk narrative.
      Where is your bloodlines from again?🤡🤡🤡🤫😉

    • @alfredtameifuna8928
      @alfredtameifuna8928 6 місяців тому

      ​@@increasepeace4996stop sidestepping the question you have in other forums...
      Where is the 37 Tu'i Manu'a burial mounds found? There are only 6 on Ta'u, Manu'a. Where is the rest fiapoko?
      I told you before you got no Bloodlines to Manu'a, I have from Olosega, Manu'a I'm a Fuimāono kefe where are you from again?🤡🤫😉

  • @samp7000
    @samp7000 7 місяців тому +1

    Tangaloa.......Tagaloa........Tagalog.........we are all filipinos😂