. Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia . s. The Samoans say that amongtheir ancient ones dwelt a woman named Sina. Sinaamong the Polynesians is the same as Hina—the his softened into s. She captured a small eel andkept it as a pet. It grew large and strong and finallyattacked and bit her. She fled, but the eel followed hereverywhere. Her father came to her assistance andraised high mountains between the eel and the eel passed over the barrier and pursued mother raised a new series of mountains. Butagain the eel surmounted the difficulties and attempt-ed to seize Sina.
. Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia . s. The Samoans say that amongtheir ancient ones dwelt a woman named Sina. Sinaamong the Polynesians is the same as Hina—the his softened into s. She captured a small eel andkept it as a pet. It grew large and strong and finallyattacked and bit her. She fled, but the eel followed hereverywhere. Her father came to her assistance andraised high mountains between the eel and the eel passed over the barrier and pursued mother raised a new series of mountains. Butagain the eel surmounted the difficulties and attempt-ed to seize Sina. She broke away from him and ranon and on. Finally she wearily passed through a vil-lage. The people asked her to stay and eat withthem, but she said they could only help her by deliv-ering her from the pursuing eel. The inhabitants ofthat village were afraid of the eel and refused to fightfor her. So she ran on to another place. Here thechief offered her a drink of water and promised tokill the eel for her. He prepared awa, a stupefying 96. A Coconut Grove in Kona. drink, and put poison in it. When the eel came alongthe chief asked him to drink. He took the awa andprepared to follow Sina. When he came to the placewhere she was the pains of death had already seizedhim. While dying he begged her to bury his head byher home. This she did, and in time a plant new tothe islands sprang up. It became a tree, and finallyproduced a cocoanut, whose two eyes could continu-ally look into the face of Sina. Tuna, in the legends of Fiji, was a demon of thesea. He lived in a deep sea cave, into which he some-times shut himself behind closed doors of coral. Whenhe was hungry, he swam through the ocean shadows,always watching the restless surface. When a canoepassed above him, he would throw himself swiftlythrough the waters, upset the canoe, and seize someof the boatmen and devour them. He was greatlyfeared by all the fishermen of the Fijian coasts. Roko—a mo-o or dragon god—in his journe
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