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FOLK-SONGS AND MYTHS FROM SAMOA. 377 
God; aitu, ‘a spirit, an inferior god’; to call in; afe. 
Leave thy title or signify thy will; the original here is,—‘ tuu lou ao sei 
logo ia Pili-tafao.” The meaning is not clear. Pili-tafao or Mo‘otagao 
was the sister of Ta‘e-o-Tangaloa and wife of Foisia, an aitu or god of 
Ofu. 
7. Sit on high on a seat ; ‘ua ti‘eti‘e i le nofo.’ 
All the priests were prostrate; ‘taatitia mana uma,’ waiting their doom. 
Native cloth; u‘a; made from the bark of the paper mulberry. 
8. And eaten; ‘e fai taumafa,’ a cannibal feast ; don’t; ‘aui.’ 
Notrs to No. XXXVI. 
Line 1, Royal will; observe that a king was in a sense sacred; for, 
where he sat, nobody else could sit; no one could touch his food. On 
each side of a king sat a ‘tuafale,’ the head man of a family. Chiefs 
were termed pa‘ia, ‘not touched by work, sacred.’ Folasa, ‘a prophet.’ 
Angae is a district in Manu‘a. 
‘2. ‘Invited ; velaau-ina; as when persons are passing by and are in- 
vited to come in and partake of food. 
3-5. The text of these two lines is :— 
v. 3. Afe mai sei tuu lou ao; v. 4. Sei logo ia Pilitafao; v. 5. Aua 
ni tonu mo au; or T'autua na ni tonu mo au 
6. Guests ; ‘tataluma,’ which is the front part of the house, and honoured 
guests are set there; pillowed, ‘aluga a,’ used as a verb, There must be 
and may thus be used like the wooden pillow of the natives; lago me 
‘to raise on supports,’ 4 laai is ‘ to pass over.’ With this Skod: 
Sleep, compare the superstitions in many countries about stepping on 
and over the threshold; compare also I. Sam. v., 4 
7. Borrowed ; nono; referring to its first coming from Fiji. 
8. Reported ; logo; that is, ‘ much heard of, famous.’ 
- Wandered ; abe word thus translated here and elsewhere is the cau- 
Sative ‘ faa-eva, 
+= 16. These lines represent tie gradual descent of the bird under 
the magic influence of the ‘ folasa 
Perch; ‘tu,’ stand; ridge-pole, ‘au-au’; beams, ‘tausoaga’; upper, ‘luga’s 3 
middle, * loto’; lower, ‘lalo’; lowest tier of thatch, ‘ lagolau.’ 
17. Alight ; & tapa; the translation of this word is conjectural. 
19, 20, 21, 25. The text of these lines is :— 
tau ane ai lou toasa; v.20. Ae soifua mana sa; v. 21. 
Fa‘aua ma fa‘atimu ma fa‘ata; v. 25. Ina ’é liu falesoga ma 
liu falemana. 
26. Offensive ; soesa; the text i no word for hair. 
°8. I was first ; Masi says this. 
