TATAA

TATAA


The other day, I felt like rowing my kayak around the TATAA area in Faa’a Tahiti.

It was the perfect day to take pictures and to show you around the places I used to play when little.

Before the Intercontinental hotel was ever built. That point used to be virgin.

With relatives, we used to spend many of our childhood days swimming to TATAA to lay on the

white sandy beach and when we did not feel like swimming back home, we would hike the TATAA hills to reach the FANATEA road and walk home from there. There was a MAPE PIROPIRO tree (Hymenaea courbaril Jatoba) on the top of the hill that we all liked to eat of the fruit

Hiking was always very interesting because the hills were filled with PURAU trees (Hibiscus trees) and wasp nests. So you imagine what we had to go through to keep ourselves from getting bitten.

This whole land was originally split and owned by three different native families. They owned land from the mountain all the way to the reef… TATAA was part of their property and for some reason one day a hotel was built there.

Tahitian people were at the time very passive when it came to protect their land. Somehow this
land has been prescribed!?…And today we still don’t even know or understand how this all happened.

We have spent so much of our time in that area that the underwater world holds no secret to us.
We were always able to nourish ourselves when needed…

TATAA was where our natural brooms that fell from the coconut tree were found to rake the yard. We would row the outrigger canoe there to collect them.
This last Christmas I used one of those natural brooms as my Christmas tree.

Coconut leaves were also gathered from TATAA to renew the roof of our FARE(S) (huts).

Most of all we never missed the chance to walk on PAI’s footprints. My family legend says that PAI the great warrior threw his spear from TATAA to one of Moorea Mountains. On a beautiful morning it is possible to see the hole in the mountain known as MOUA PUTA.

TATAA is known as the place where souls exit the Island of Tahiti to start a great trip to the other world or dimension. It is the souls takeoff place as it is well explained by ROHUTU NO’ANO’A in this following site. http://www.rohutu.com/article-10088984.html
http://tahei-ia-tataa.over-blog.com/






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READ ABOUT THE STORY OF TAFA'I FROM THE BISHOP MUSEUM IN HAWAI. THE TATAA POINT IS MENTIONED IN IT.
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/Tafai.html