MOANA - MASTER WAYFINDER
DARI FB/NINOTAZIZ With her palm set to the stars, and her hands feeling the currents of the ocean, it dawned on me that the movie was about the great wayfarers of the archipelago - ninotaziz The girls and I, and Roll went to see Moana last night. It was family time, precious as usual. And yet, there was a gentle stirring in our hearts - from the moment Irani remarked how the hand-movements of the Polynesian dancers were reminiscent to our Inang and Joget to the appreciation of the coconut tree of a thousand uses and the huge mythical animals we share. It was a movie based on Polynesian traditions , but as soon as the big boats with woven sails were revealed, I felt a wave of homecoming in my heart, and a call to the sea of my own. What is the connection between the Polynesians and us. Well, in 1880s, the Hawaiian king Kalākaua embarked on a adventure around the world to find out. To America. To Japan. To South East Asia. When their ship arrived in Siam, as it was known t...