Culture
100+ tahitian first names and their meanings
You want to choose a Polynesian name for your child? Discover more than 100 Tahitian names for boy or girl with their meaning. Names full of poetry, sunshine and Pacific ocean from the other side of the world! The Tahitian language (or ” Reo Tahiti “) is used in the Society Islands, in French Polynesia. Although French is predominantly used, Tahitian […]
The “Heiva i Tahiti”, an ancestral tradition that sets the pace
Tahiti and her islands are famous for their postcard landscapes and surely as much for their dancers. Sailors, explorers, artists and tourists succumbed to the imagery of the exotic dancer with swaying rhythms! The dance is indeed a well-established tradition that continues to be transmitted from generation to generation. Every July in Tahiti, the “Heiva i Tahiti” is held, an […]
Monoi, the sacred oil of Tahiti and her islands
Opening a bottle of monoi oil from Tahiti is like starting a journey of the senses that will take you straight to the fine sandy beaches under the sun of the antipodes. During your stay in French Polynesia, you will not fail to smell these particular and bewitching fragrances. The Tiare flower The white, or more rarely yellow, […]
Unique Tahiti Black Pearls
Famous all over the world for their uniqueness and beauty : Tahiti pearls are better known as Tahiti black pearls. The word is poerava in Tahitian, for “poe” the pearl and “rava” black. Are Tahitian black pearls really black? No, but almost: they can be extremely dark but they are very rare: they are for the […]
FIFO : International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival
Oceania is certainly one of the most beautiful regions of the world. It is characterized by its many riches and a great cultural diversity. Despite all that this region has to offer, it remains little known today. It is in this perspective that the International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival was established. The main objective of this […]
The mysterious «tahu’a», Polynesian priests
The mysterious «tahu’a», Polynesian priests of the pre-Christian era: The oral tradition of Tahiti and her Islands always evokes “tahu’a” as key figures in the religious, social and cultural life of ancient Polynesian societies. With deep knowledge and mysterious powers in many areas, tahu’a were recognized, influential and respected. They were sometimes feared because no […]
The great art of the emblematic «tifaifai»
Crafts of Tahiti and her Islands – The great art of the emblematic «tifaifai»: The “Tifaifai” is actually some kind of a patchwork that historically corresponds to a local adaptation of the art of making the British kilt (the kilt of Scottish origin, being itself a form of patchwork). In fact, the spouses of the […]
The enigmatic “marae” of Tahiti & her islands
The enigmatic “marae”, ancient places of worship Outside of Tahiti and her islands, the “marae” arouse as much interest and interrogation as the mysterious “Moai” of Easter Island. In many respects, the marae are part of the great enigmas of the South Pacific. The marae were places of sacred worship and open-air temples of ancient pagan […]
Tahitian handicrafts and its islands
Tahitian handicrafts and its islands harmoniously combines the sense of beauty and the sense of usefulness The manual skills and the creativity of the Polynesians are no longer to be demonstrated. It is a people who have always known how to use the materials and products of their insular environment, yet cut off from the […]
Traditional Tahitian dances – cultural survivors
Traditional Tahitian dances have miraculously survived various successive adverse contexts. Nietzsche could have said about their odd destiny that “everything that did not kill them finally made them stronger”… But this would not have happened on its own and even surely wouldn’t have at all, if Madeleine Mou’a was not born to this world and […]
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