The War Drums of a Makua: The Season of Battle

In this episode, we walk the rhythm between punishment and restoration, exploring how Polynesian justice was never about shame—it was about ceremony. Chiefs and kahuna enforced law through ritual, not isolation. We trace the sacred use of plant-based medicines like ʻawa, the layered leadership of ali‘i, and the healing protocols that treated illness as imbalance, not defect. From reciprocal economies to spiritual contracts, this ep...

In this episode, we trace the breathline of sovereignty—from Native American treaty rights to Polynesian ancestral law. We explore how Polynesians didn’t just arrive—they navigated, governed, and encoded their legacy in language, ritual, and land. From Formosa to the southern tip of the triangle, we follow the linguistic threads that stitch together the Pacific, revealing how Native American DNA mixed with ours along the way. This ...

In this episode, we descend into the breathline—where memory meets motion and Ea speaks through rhythm, resistance, and ancestral recall. DS unpacks the layered pulse of sovereignty, tracing how breath becomes boundary, and how the act of inhaling can reclaim space across oceans, treaties, and generations. From the edge of the Pacific to the marrow of migration, this episode ritualizes the unseen: the breath that carries names, the...

In this ceremonial transmission, DS invokes the breathline of Ea—the primordial force of movement, memory, and migration that predates borders and bureaucracies. Through layered storytelling and ancestral cadence, this episode explores sovereignty not as a legal construct, but as a living rhythm encoded in oceanic lineage, physiological resilience, and ritual governance. From the jawbone of a hyena to the heat of a sleeping body, D...

In this season two Episode, we descend into the fracture—where sovereignty is not lost, but torn. The Rupturing of Ea traces the deliberate severing of breathline through child removal, cultural re-indoctrination, and the weaponization of neglect. From village memory to courtroom silence, we examine how systems redefine care to erase kinship, and how the canoe tilts when one child is taken. This episode is not a lament—it is a reck...

In this episode, we braid ancestral rhythm with institutional power, exploring how government organizations—often dismissed as bureaucratic—can become vessels of sacred stewardship. DS unpacks the five rhythms that pulse through effective governance: Initiation, Containment, Transmission, Accountability, and Renewal. Each rhythm is mapped to ancestral practices and ecological truths, revealing how policy can become prayer, and how ...

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The War Drums of a Makua is produced by Savage Music Studios and sponsored by South Pacific Healt...

In this episode, we descend into the marrow—where science meets spirit, and the MAO-A gene becomes more than a molecule. Known as the “warrior gene,” MAO-A has been linked to aggression, impulse, and ancestral survival. But what happens when this gene is activated in a world that no longer honors ritual, rhythm, or restraint? DS unpacks the tension between genetic inheritance and cultural accountability, weaving the story of Ea—the...