Abstract
In the Moana generally, and in Tonga specifically, it is thought that, in a circular style, people walk forward into the past, and walk backward into the future, both in the present, where the seemingly fixed past and elusively yet-to-take-place future, are constantly mediated in the conflicting, ever-changing present. Thus, the Tongan conception of time and space is underlined by a sense of realism, aestheticism and classicism.
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