A Kiss from the Ancient Lady of the Sea
I’m from Fiji, Solevu Bay in Bua. I have a story of ancient entity that haunts our waters to this day.
She is known as “Lewa Cinacina” or Lady of the Light 💡 or The Ancient Lady of the Sea. She is an ancient Mer-Creature 🧜♀️ that is known to be a harbinger of death 💀. She also has the ability to shape shift. She is known to take the shape of sea creatures or persons recently lost at sea. Her most seen form is of a young beautiful woman dressed in brilliantly bright white light. She can be seen swimming rock pools on the reef during moonless nights. When a chieftain dies or is about to die, the light that emanates from her is red. Her husband is “Dakuwaqa”, from Cakaudrove.
We have a folklore that if you find yourself adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a stormy night ... we chant a prayer to the “Ancient Lady of Sea”, to come to our aid and bring us (her grand children) to the safety of her home Bay.
There is a warning ... that should she come, she will extract a payment for the debt of saving your life...
We were spear fishing off the sea shelf of the Ocean late one night when a storm broke and we were taken out to sea... Our raft was shattered by the enormous waves rolling onto the reef... Between the five of us we only had two bamboo logs... My cousin then prayed the chant...
[chant] Ancient lady of sea, old mother of the sea... we your grandchildren beg thee. We are lost at sea, and death is near. Come to our aid, bring us home to safety. So that we can kiss our mothers before we repay our debt.
The dark angry water was illuminated by a fluorescent bluish glow and I saw a large dolphin’s tail swim pass me... I could hear a beautiful but haunting song in the wind. The bamboos were propelled into the darkness.... while hypnotic song whispered in the wind, “Safe you are my children, home to your mothers you go... but I will come for my kiss”
Before I realised it we were marooned on a sand bank meters from my village... we made it home safe...
Years have passed, two of my cousins have been lost at sea while out sailing, their bodies were never recovered.
The clothes they wore on that fateful day were located in their wives washing basin the next morning. Neighbors saw a young beautiful woman attend each house in the village delivering the clothes in the middle of the previous night.
The clothes were returned before the news broke that they had been lost at sea. Their phones (safely stored in zip lock bags) washed ashore an island in Yasawa, days after they had been reported missing.
Another cousin died after, a shark bit off his arm. A Marco shark jumped into their fishing boat. The shark walked up to him on using her dorsal fins while he was a sleep on the deck. He was the only one bitten and the shark jumped back into the sea. His crew mates that were on deck reported that the shark walked passed everyone else to get to him.
Some crew insisted that they did not see a shark but a young beautiful woman walk towards my cousin kissing him on the same arm he lost....Two of us are still waiting for her kiss.
P.S
My cousin’s mobile phones washed up on a nearby island, in zip lock bags. It was the confirmation that she had taken them.
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#SolevuBay #LewaSerelaca #LewaCinacina
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