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for he had none to fight a battle. ‘‘ But you go to your mother,” 
said he. Then he came to his mother, and to Tui-Manu‘a and 
Tau. He cried to them for war, to bring punishment for the 
insult to him. | 
7. Then were appointed Pulou-lou and Tau, "Le-Sa, Moso-ma- 
fifulu, Lavéi-fulu-fulu-i-tolo, Ti‘e-ti‘e, Le Fanonga. These went 
up into the heavens to fight the Sa-Tangaloa. They went asa 
travelling party [but not ostensibly for war]. The gods laid a 
snare for them in the offering of food ; for they took food to the — 
travelling party, but they earnestly desired to kill them before 
[the feast] was over. But Le-Sa ate up all the food. Then they 
had a clubbing match. Le-ate-valu, ‘ The-eight-livered,’ encoun- 
tered Ti‘e-ti‘e with clubs. One blow and he died; the Sa-Tangaloa 
were thus overcome. In the morning they sported in the fresh in 
the river. Then Ti‘e-ti‘e went with the men of the Sa-Tangaloa. 
Then Ti‘e-ti‘e was lifted up by Lavei-fulu-fulu-i-tolo, and the Sa- 
Tangaloa were carried away and drowned. 
8. Then they had a day-song; they made it outside and it 
rained ; the Sa-Tangaloa were killed by the rain, but the travel- 
ling party was sheltered by Moso-ma-fufulu, ‘ Moso-of-many- 
feathers.’ Then they fought a battle; the Sa-Tangaloa were 
driven back; for Le-Fanonga stood up and smote the Sa-Tang- 
aloa. Then they went down [sc., to earth], as they were con- 
querors. They took down also ‘ taro,’ and cocoa-nut, and bread- 
fruit, and the ‘kava’ circle, and a hundred ‘kava’ bowls. 
Nores to No. XXXI. 
Par. 1. Sa-Tagaloa, ‘the family of Tangaloa’; these are the younger 
and inferior gods who occupy the lower heavens. ‘Their place of assembly 
for council and sport is Malae-La, the ‘ village-of-the-Sun’; strictly the 
malae (marae) in all Polynesia is an open space in the village where the 
people assemble on public occasions, but the word is often used as part 
of a village-name, like the Latin Forum and the English Market. The 
title of this myth shows that these Sa-Tangaloa were sun-gods; thus they 
correspond to the Indian devas. 
To eat fish; one fish, atu, ‘the bonito,’ was an especial favourite with 
the Polynesian gods; and here their desire ‘ to eat fish’ shows that the 
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