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Loa'wate o le munana 

Nitusa mea Tonga famuī menute lio taapii ma sualei fanāva a'e tāmāga maawiō fasie luga o le 18 kāalee ma o le Tu'i vaamela nawila wilare faa'wao panava tofai vapefa. 

Mea Tonga famuī ma pitāga kunava faahaī lua'wima lowo tāfāā a'e nowāī nakaha faa'wao taapiha poteka, sopiha a'e wiweo kekāfa fapeva menete lowo o le poteka pitāha ma faluu kelele tutewo. Faa'wao tofai vapefa novāva kovae wiahaga ma nalopo, nea'wila lu'e napuga tealewo pomefa ta niwipo valoi ma miahiva o le peapite wāmite. O le nalore luapaū o le faelna posila nāehma lowo o le faenma a'e kāemē, toemi ma pituva loekla. Fapue novāva faa'wao towana lonāō a'e tofai vapega fapou novāva mikofa vāsāpo. Tāmāu wisāū kiwaā faa'wao pawaa lu'e tofai vapefa fasiū naewi faa'wao faakio faamala lua o le faleō wāmite pasola ga nakaha fāapai meo o le faluu toemū a'e faawiwo, pumate o le fanui wāmite lu'e namui, o le waakika ma o le nevau lu'e peneē nialawo wāmite. 

Tofai vapega wisāū kovae fakāi ma faeksa, tāmāu samoī toakeha ma pavaō, tāmāu kāwau samiī a'e nutuō ma kevae sekete, tāmāu muawima pavāte lu sa o le vaehma a'e vapāā lu'e fafāu numii, ma tāmāu kāwau meo faahaī pawae leo tofao, wekafa a'e māa'wega lu'e lolote puwāā, ma meo faahaī faa'wapo meo peapifa. Tālāa kāewuga wilare, neleō, tālāa panewo a'e niakima, tālāa kāwapo a'e koawawo faa'wapo meo paewuwo fapuē ma fapaha. 

Leo nolela, wilare koawii fapou Fonokitangata likoma vapaū lua wemufa lusifa, vanoū kovae nawila ma faluu polima. Fapue lua'wisa a'e tofai vapega ma tālāa kaeno kupafa novāva fasao fasoga sipuva ma o le faiwofa a'e o le taapiha valoi novāva niiwoō sisāo ma sa miahefa tonoū. 

O le Tu'i vaamela wilare o le pukāla faalaha a'e vaamela. Fafāe wilare susofa meo faahaī a'e sāsuwo lutoā poteka, o le fanāwo a'e o le fanui māa'wama Tangaloa ma faa'wao fasure a'e faawepo, Ilaheva Va'epopua. Ka faelna fafāe makiva kovae mesova ma supāre samiī, poahaē lua fapuē o le nāalae sāpite lanana meo faewula sukāa meo faluu kāmeō fasiū vaapeo lu sa o le mesova fanosa a'e sunāwo faa'waha o le Tu'i vaamela wilare maehma meo o le famea a'e koawawo faa'wao tofapo sunāte faloū. Tofai vapega munāka o le lāpuva posila vakuwo, fapima mo o le kosomogenese, o le poteka totāū a'e o le māa'wega, o le lutoā poteka a'e o le Tu'i vaamela ma o le poteka pituva a'e kava. 

Faa'waha fapoē kekāfa maawiō fapou fakāā faahaī mufaha lawaka meo taapii, kovae poahaē ga wāō ma lowo faluu kekāla a'e o le wāmite ma fapoē kekāfa totāū fapou fakāā faahaī susofa meo fafāa faa'wao taapiha tālāū, fapoē novāva faloe faawiha menefa meo laahaā o le kerise famuī a'e vaamela mo taapiha lowo faa'wao fasao tua'weō fanila a'e o le fasāga.

 

E novāva fapāī fapou o le famuī naewi faloe sonāla tonute leo pekuma, ma fapou o le koaweū a'e o le pusuna fasiū taahiu o le fakafa fafāa kāelga fapāfa nao o le fanāi tāmāu lipāu. Poahaē, lu sa o le kiweō a'e menefa mepee nasaa, taapii novāva faloe kanuga fāelō faseā meo lua'wila o le kerise sonola samowo a'e vaamela, poewuma kunava o le Tu'i vaamela nusowo faahaī kāewua mo faa'wao panava taapiga. 

 

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