The Highlander

They say that the highlander was chief of the land.

He payed homage to the taotaomo’na. The death Gods found in the trees on the land.

If you should approach a tree and give him an offering, he shall give you the knowledge of the roong also called “the root,” or the root of knowledge.

One day, the highlander found his wife being shamed by two men following another woman and in return, to shame him more, they took the head of the wife and chopped it off and dismembered her body and put her in a banyan tree.

This happened amongst the guinaife, meaning the villagers and soon the highlander placed a large amount of fish in front of the banyan tree in the hopes that the villagers would not be harmed and that they would stop their activities of raping women.

So the banyan tree everyday was given sacred meat and offerings to it, but soon, as the banyan tree grew taller each day he cared for it, one by one, the people who shamed their women had been killed and dismembered.

Some blamed the highlander and do the highlander took his life and killed himself on the banyan tree and vowed yo protect his people as well as their wives.

They say those who venture into the night could hear the rustling of the trees and that the appearance of women would ease it.