This week I focused on the the tonga region. These people were known to have taken captives during war and eat them. The prisoners were forced to dig their own oven if you will. The tongans would cook these people like suckling pigs if you will first delivering a killing blow either to the back of the dead or a slice to the throat. stuff the body with hot rocks, place them face down into the pit dug into the ground, place more hot rocks on the back, then cover the pit with leaves for 6 to 10 hours. During the cooking process in a fury of dancing and commotion sex does insue said to please the south pacific gods. Due to this strictly being warriors only warriors were allowed to eat the flesh women, and children were not allowed. It was said the women and children were too vunlerable and would be possessed by the vanquished spirits of the fallen warriors. Cut to modern day the royal family of Tonga admit that their ancestors have eaten human flesh before and commented on the taste being that of suckling pig “long pig” as they call human flesh.

The Modern day Tongan is rather large and partake in feasts on a daily basis that would rival that of the American wedding. they however do relate a lot to their ancestors who would frequently consume human flesh and that they would most likely love the feasts of the modern day. The tongan people seem very proud of the fact that their ancesctors used to eat human flesh even alluding to the face that several people in Tonga do still partake in the feasting of human flesh.