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First lines from recording:

Ivanui te are no'o ia
 
Date Recorded: 23 Nov 1967
Location: Te Makatea, Mangaia, Cook Islands
 
 
Accession Number: 83/150.13

Notes:

About the god Rongo. He thought of building a house where the sun rises. He tried to hold the sun but couldn't. See also HM125. In Mangaia, as earlier indicated, Rongo was the supreme god. He was a son of the primal parents, Vatea and Papa, and was twin to the god Tangaroa, gaining precedence over his brother because he was the first of the two to be born. Attributing the snaring of the sun to him, however, conflicts with other versions of this well-known story. Elsewhere in Polynesia this exploit is attributed to the demi-god Maui, as also in Mangaia itself, where Maui, the son of Ru who propped up the sky, noosed the sun-god Ra and extracted a promise from him to move more slowly in future. The ropes, which remained hanging, and sometimes become visible at sunset, are known in Mangaia as te taura a Maui (the ropes of Maui).

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