Fijian mythology

Fijian religion refers to the set of beliefs practiced by the indigenous people of the island of Fiji. Their indigenous religion like many others around the world is based on cyclic existence where their ancestors including the environment exist in one dynamic cycle where every being is equal and dependent on each other for survival. This means that nature is one . However today, many have been forcibly converted to an introduced Eastern eastern based religion ,Christianity. Middle eastern religions like Islam and Christianity who believe in a linear based timeline where there is a beginning of the world, an end and a afterlife somewhere in paradise or an undiscovered world known as heaven. Where there is a beginning and an end? A plant that bears seeds to exist, similar to humans, animals and all other life dependent of the reproductive cycle to maintain existence on earth. Fijians believe that humans exist with nature and sometimes dominated by other species like sharks, snakes, octupus, etc where humans and the prey rather than the predator. Their gods like Degei, a serpent who is the supreme god of Uluda Fiji. He is the creator of the (Fijian) world. He judges newly dead souls after they pass through one of two caves: Cibaciba or Drakulu. A few he sends to paradise [[Burotu or Burotukula] ]. Most others are thrown into a lake, where they will eventually sink to the bottom (Murimuria) to be appropriately rewarded or punished.