Itaukei

Itaukei religion is the traditional faith of the indigenous Fijians. Its supreme god was Degei, a serpent and the creator of the Fijian world, who judged the newly dead as they passed through the caves of Cibaciba or Drakulu. A few went to the paradise of Burotu; most were thrown into a lake to sink and be rewarded or punished.

Belief was tied to descent from a spiritual ancestor, the vu, and groups who worshipped the same god, the tauvu, were held to share an origin. Families, the tokatoka, formed clans, the mataqali, which formed tribes, the yavusa. The yavusa of one territory made up the vanua under a senior chief, whose spokesmen and advisers were priests, the bete.