Suli: Re-Storying Inheritance – COMING SOON
Sold By:
Atamai
Highlights:
Contextual and Biblical Hermeneutics from Samoa and Moana-nui. “E se’i le futi ae toto le suli.” A doctoral thesis by latuivai Kioa Latu, published in 2025 by Piula Publications, Apia Samoa and Missionshilfe Verlag, Hamburg, Germany.
“SULI: Re-Storying Inheritance: Contextual and Biblical Hermeneutics from Samoa and Moana-nui takes on, with critical erudition and lamentation, the contagious combination of the Christian Bible, law, and politics in the interpretation and regulation of land issues in Samoa. Through a contextual, relational, and decolonial lens, Latu presents a provocative Suli hermeneutics to investigate biblical inheritance narratives and the role of Samoan Christianity in their reception, but also as a gesture towards reaffirming ‘ele’ele or land as the birthing center for understanding being and knowing in Pasifika. This is a call for a theological re-storying to safeguard land as inheritance, and a valuable Ala’imoana, ‘the way in and of the moana,’ for anyone who wants to learn Samoan theology.” Upolu Lumā Vaai, Professor of Theology and Ethics and Principal, Pacific Theological College, Suva, Fiji.
THIS EBOOK IS NOT YET AVAILABLE. LIKE AND FOLLOW TO RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON WHEN IT CAN BE PURCHASED.
T30.00 – T150.00Price range: T30.00 through T150.00
T30.00 – T150.00Price range: T30.00 through T150.00
T30.00 – T150.00Price range: T30.00 through T150.00
T30.00 – T150.00Price range: T30.00 through T150.00
Tanka
Sold By:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
Playing with poem structure, paint, and Samoan markings.
Small paintings inspired by the 7 metre by 2 metre works (pic 6) I created for the VIP Terminal Lounge at Faleolo International Airport.
A tanka poem is derived from Japanese poetry arranged in five lines with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count.
Telesa – The Covenant Keeper
Sold By:
Lani Young
Highlights:
An island of secrets. A girl on fire. An epic battle of the elements. The book that started it all…
Only $10 USD (approx currency conversion)
Featured
The Bone Bearer
Sold By:
Lani Young
Highlights:
The thrilling, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to The Telesa Series. Leila’s selfless act at the closing of ‘When Water Burns,’ unleashed the demonic fury of Pele the Fire Goddess and now Daniel must fight an epic battle to free the one he loves. Unlikely allies come to his aid as a group of troubled elementals try to overcome their differences and work as a team to save their friend. But Pele’s awakening has caused cataclysmic fear throughout the Telesa guardians of the Pacific and they are gathering their forces, preparing to defend the Blue Continent from the devastating threat of the Fire Goddess. Only one thing can destroy her – the Tangaloa Bone. The race is on to recover the three pieces of this ancient weapon and the question remains: who will wield the power of the Bone Bearer? And can Leila survive its apocalyptic fury? Will the covenant of love between Daniel and Leila endure this final battle?
Only $10 USD (approx currency conversion)
The Cleaner
Sold By:
Nikki Mariner
Highlights:
The first painting of every year is significant.
It sets the tone, mood, style, and benchmark for the year.
The Cleaner was my first for 2024.
It’s a figurative painting of a woman with a broom.
She wears only a lavalava and a sei.
Inspirations.
1. I fell in love with a sculpture by Italian artist Ernesto Coter while eating in his kitchen at Santa Maria Rezzonico a few weeks earlier. The sculpture was sitting on the sideboard beside his dining table. He said it is a Samoan woman dancing. This painting is a response to the sculpture (Pic 5)
2. A new year inspires a fresh look at life, reassessment, and decluttering. It’s not the first time my first painting for a new year has included a broom. It’s about spring cleaning your life as a new year begins.
3. Spending time with my family gave me a fresh respect for two of my sisters who each successfully run their own cleaning businesses in Queensland. It’s more interesting and complex work than I expected, and what they do for their clients is admirable.
I wanted to honour cleaners so I painted gold behind her head to show she is iconic.
And she had a gold broom.
4. Samoans sweep everything regularly – the beach, the grass the house, and everything.
5. A woman with a broom is a timeless and common sight in the background of every culture and every age. I want to uplift and highlight this symbol.
As a goddess. With an iconic halo.
We have often been this person and often see this person. And they’re important and essential.
They get rid of crap and they make the world more beautiful.
Goddesses.
6. I painted a blue ocean type background because I was seeing a lot from the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai, while painting. Many people I know were there representing island nations of the Pacific Ocean.
The Editor
Sold By:
Bella's World
Highlights:
Internal chaos or forced deconstruction of identity? You decide.
Only $10 USD (approx currency conversion)
The Wedding
Sold By:
Emma Kruse Vaai
Highlights:
A delightful story from Samoa. It’s Pati and Lili’s special wedding day, and the Reverend is running a bit late so the wedding ceremony won’t start till four o’clock in the afternoon. But that is the time Lili normally feeds her chickens. Will the chickens delay the wedding even longer? With stunning illustrations by acclaimed Samoan artist Regina Meredith.
Only $10 USD.