SOME FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 995 
-war-god of Fiti-uta, but I will go and be the war-god of Le-fale-tolu; 
if my sons fight, you watch the war and side with the weaker 
party, and I will come to help, if needful; let not the attacking 
party conquer; if Fiti-uta come to attack Fale-tolu, you will unite 
with me to repel them.’ 
7. Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa then went to his sons and gave them formally 
their appointments, which he had mentioned at the time of their 
birth. To Fa‘a-ea-nu‘u he said, “ Let the imperial dignity abide 
with thee ; through thee, let it be associated with men ; let them . 
stand up and make their council-speeches in thy palace, ‘O king 
of Manu‘a and all Samoa.’ To his brother he said, “ Be thou 
named Ati-i-lagi; let the royal dignity be associated with the in- 
ferior, human gods through thee ; sit thou in thy palace and speak 
to the heavens.” 
8. He then warned them both against going to war with each 
other, because they were brothers. “Break your spears in two ; 
when unwilling to fight, cover up your battle-ground ; your battle 
ground is Ava-tele; if you,” addressing Ati-i-lagi, ‘if you cross 
the battle-ground and come to One-uli, your Jand will become 
desolate” [/2t., will be overrun with creeping plants (‘fue-fue’]); 
“but if you,” addressing Fa‘a-ea-nuu, “cross the boundary to 
Tapu-tapu, your land will in the same way become desolate.” 
9. It was probably between the childhood and the manhood of 
these two boys that Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa undertook the visit to Fiti, 
since the name he there and then obtained for his land, Fiti-uta, is 
mentioned in his final appointment of Fa‘a-ea-nu‘u and Ati-i-lagi, 
but not at their birth. 
10. Fa‘a-ea-nu‘u took a wife named O-malu-o-le-Tata. By her he 
had several sons, all named Sao, but distinguished from each other 
by different terminations to their names, viz., Sao-‘io-4o-manu, 
Sao-loa, Sao-puu, Sao-le-tupua, Sao-tupe-soa, Sao-le-folauga. 
1]. Fa‘a-ea-nu‘u, becoming old, retired from his official position 
and appointed his eldest son his successor. But this son, Sao-‘io- 
‘io-manu, was unwilling to accept the restraints which the dignity 
