History:

On most of the islands of Polynesia, the use and cultivation of the plant appears to have spread along with the settlement of the islands. Both the plant and kava habits have also spread into many of the islands of Melanesia. It has been conjectured that Polynesians colonized Easter Island in the third of fourth century because a chief was “led” there by a kava-induced vision.

The ethnologist R.W. Williamson has worked out strong resemblances between the Vedic Soma ritual and the Polynesian kava ceremonies and has conjectured that at least the ritual of kava spread from India to Oceania. There, the kava pepper was used as a substitute for the Indian soma plant. Another ethnologist has argued that Polynesia was originally settled by tow cultures, which on the basis of their herb uses he called the betel people and the kava people. Even today, the areas in which betel is used and those in which kava are preferred can be geographically clearly distinguished. The custom of using betel  only rarely overlaps with that of kava.

The first Europeans to become acquainted with kava were Captain James Cook (1727-1779) and his fellow travelers. In 1777, Johann Georg Forster, who accompanied Cook, provided the first botanical description of the plant and the associated ceremony.  

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