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(b.) The Feoplmg of the Earth after the Flood. 



He then returned to heaven and said to Tagaloa the 

 Messenger^ " Return to your course ; take this pair, Group 

 and Eastern, and let them people the eastern range. From 

 these two of the progeny of Tagaloa it is that the whole 

 eastern range is named. He next sent him with Group and 

 Fiti* to people the lands which are named after them. In 

 like manner he sent him with Group and Tonga =:i^'?'?^^> by 

 whom the lands known by their names were peopled. All 

 these were the progeny of Tagaloa. 



By the command of Tagaloa the Creator, Tagaloa the 

 Messenger now returned to Manuka to Fatu-ma-le-Eleele, 

 and of their progeny selected Valu''a and Tiapa, and took 

 them to people the land which is now called Savai'i. To 

 this pair were born a girl, whom they named I'i, and a boy, 

 whom they named Sava ; by these the island was peopled, 

 and hence the name Savai'i.t 



On his return from Savai'i, Tagaloa the Messenger looked 

 imploringly to the heavens. Tagaloa the Creator looked 

 down, and Upolu emerged from the waters. Again Tagaloa 

 the Messenger looked up imploringly to the heavens. Taga- 

 loa the Creator looked down, and Tutuila emerged. 



Returning to the heavens, Tagaloa the Messenger said, 

 " There are two lands now for resting-places." Tagaloa the 

 Creator answered, ''^Take the man-producing vine, and go 

 and plant it exposed to the sun. Leave it to bring forth 

 spontaneously, and when it has done so inform me.^' He 

 planted it at the east end of Upolu, at a place called the 

 Forum of the Sun. When he visited it, he found that the 

 vine had produced a shapeless, moving mass. He informed 

 Tagaloa the Creator that the vine had brought forth. Taga- 

 loa the Creator himself then descended, and saw that it was 

 a mass of worms which the vine had produced. He straight- 

 ened them out so as to develop their heads, faces, hands, and 

 arms, moulding them into perfect human forms, and he gave 

 them heart and soul. Thus were formed four human beings. 



* Fiti = m2, Libya. 



t Savai'i. The reference in this name seems to be to Sheba, ^'^^, son 

 of Joktan (Gen. x. 28). If we suppose that his wife's name was Yichi, 

 i.e., '•n'j life, then we have, in the two combined, Savai'i, thus : N^V" 'i-nd 

 "•n^z^Sava and I'i=zlki ; and as Sheba, son of Joktan, was the progenitor 

 of the ancient inhabitants of Southern Arabia, we thus find that Yemen is 

 the Savai'i ; and Savaiki, Havai'i and Hawai'i of Polynesia ; and hence 

 that, in all probability, Yemen was the starting-point of the light-coloured 

 Polynesian and Malagasy races; 



