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24. Then Tangaloa, the creator, said to Tangaloa-savali, 'the 

 messenger,' ' Come here ; be thou ambassador in all the heavens, 

 beginning from the Eighth Heavens down to the First Heavens, 

 to tell them all to gather together in the Ninth Heavens, where 

 Tangaloa, the immoveable,is chief. Then proclamation was made 

 that they should go up to the Ninth Heavens, and then visit below 

 the children of Night and Day in the First Heavens. 



25. Then Tangaloa, the messenger, went down to Night and 

 Day in the First Heavens, and asked them thus : — ' Have you two 

 any children appointed to you?' And they answered, 'Come 

 here ; these two are our children, appointed to us, Langi-'uli and 

 Langi-ma. 



26. All the stars also were their offspring, but we do not have 

 the names of all the stars (the stars had each its own name), for 

 they are forgotten now, because they dropped out of use. And 

 surely the last injunction of Tangaloa, the creator, to Night and 

 Day was that they should produce the Eye-of-the-Sky. That was 

 the reason Tangaloa, the messenger, went down to ask Night and 

 Day in the First Heavens [if they had any children]. 



27. Then answered Night and Day, ' Come now; there remain 

 four boys that are not yet appointed, — Manu'a, Samoa, the Sun, 

 and the Moon.' 



28. These are the boys that originated the names of Samoa 

 and Manu'a ; these two were the children of Night and Day. The 

 name of the one is Sa-tia-i-le-moa, ' obstructed by the chest '; the 

 meaning of which is this : — the boy seemed as if he would not be 

 born, because ^e was caught by the chest ; therefore it was he was 

 called Sa-tia-i-le-moa, that is, Samoa ; the other was born with 

 one side abraded ('manu'a') ; then said Day to Night 'Why is this 

 child so greatly wounded?' therefore the child was called 'Manu'a- 

 tele.' 



29. Then said Tangaloa, the messenger, 'It is good; come now; 

 go up into the Ninth Heavens, you four ; all are about to gather 

 together there to form a Council; go up you two also.' Then they 



