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Nafanua the Legend Who are you really? I have a few more comments to make before our selected passage from Acts owns the stage as promised.  After you read it, you would understand.  Here we go ... The Samoans held and treasured many beliefs before the Christians arrived.  At the basic level, they believed that both humans and ghosts (be it ancestral spirits, demigods, spirits of animal/bird/fish, or any kind of spirit with human-like essence) occupy the same sphere of existence.  Their lives intertwine in a lot of ways according to Samoan mythologies and legends.  Some ghosts are good, respected, and loved by the Samoans; others are bad, hated and even feared.   For generations, they survived without an organized religion despite the insistence of some who have tried to read their college influenced perception of religion into the Samoan context.  For survival's sakes, thanks to the wisdom of the tried and tested Faasamoa, the Samoan structured way of life that