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Menka: Village of the Breadfruit Goddess

The Ancients

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Do we have any idea when, roughly, let say, menca might have been founded as a religious site? Or it's after they've started going inland and founding settlements inland that they then found this religious settlement right at the heart of the island? You're right, that's a tricky question, because it gets us into oral histories more than anything else. Like, when did she become the key goddess? Was she always the key goddess of the people who ded and settled on costri? We don't know that.

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