Twisted History
True enough we’ve had a twisted history. Everything from the national conversion to Islam, Rannamaari, and even Ali Rasgefaanu and his Raaveriyaa. But someone’s done it really cleverly. I mean, it’s existed in that state until the information age; or are we more aware of it because of the internet?
Do you really believe that the Raaveriyaa saw a thirsty and tired King Ali (Rasgefaanu) on Male’ beach (at about the point where is resting place is now) from Villingili? Male’ has been reclaimed by so many hundred meters now. Yet, try spotting someone in Villingili while standing at the closest point to Villingili in Male’ even now. You would probably need binoculars to do that still. So how did the Raaveriyaa spot the late Ali Rasgefaanu?
So what really happened? Here’s what I think. This is the clever bit. Some intellectual (or a scribe) decided to write his own version of history when at a time most would have been illeterate. So when scholars came looking for history, they did find it to be documented. This in turn was regularly narrated over generations to the illiterate mass, with such vigor that made it real like. Story telling might have been a good profession then.
The same may have been true for all the illogical and ridiculous documented history!
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January 2, 2007 at 4:58 pm
The Raaveriyaa did more than just spotting the Rasgefaanu… The fellow SWAM across the sea carrying toddy, safely protected from the roughing sea, and delivered it to the King despite him being said to be surrounded and overwhelmed by enemgy forces. Story telling, at its finest.
“Koi malaako vaahaka”, the story of how Maldives began, should have been adopted as real history too. It reads like if its part Jungle Book part Colombus discovering America.
Maybe our historians were on a bit too much of “afihun” or “oshani”
January 2, 2007 at 9:36 pm
hmmm… interesting.
January 3, 2007 at 12:32 am
@ jaa … Hahaha! Perhaps afihun or oshani led them to be creative or, vice versa!!
June 23, 2007 at 7:20 pm
when we were taught the rannamaari story in primary school i actualy belived it!!! i gues our education provider should at least tel us that it was a folk story ! silly me..