Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before eBook

George Turner (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 230 pages of information about Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before.

Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before eBook

George Turner (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 230 pages of information about Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before.

17.  Siu toso.  Lau lano ma lau Ata.
                     vai.

18.  Ata.  Uliaumi.  Siufeai.

19.  Siufeai.  Polaitu.  Siu le lau mato.

20.  Siu le lau mato.  Sina i lau tolo.  Feepo.

21.  Feepo.  Sea faetele.  Ationgie.

22.  Ationgie.  Tau vai upolu.  Savea.

This Savea was the first Malietoa, and then in the continuance of this genealogy there follow twenty-three generations of Malietoa, down to Malietoa Talavou, who was proclaimed king in 1878, and subsequently recognised by the Governments of England, Germany, and the United States.  Many other traditionary genealogies of chiefs might be given, but let the above suffice as a specimen of the rest.

3.  Other descendants of Cloudless heavens (No. 6 above):—­

     Male. Female. Progeny.

(1) Cloudless The eighth heavens.  Tangaloa the
     heavens. dweller in lands.

(2) Tangaloa Cloudy heavens.  Tangaloa the
     dweller in explorer of lands.
     lands.

(3) Tangaloa the Queen of earth.  Valevalenoa, or
     explorer of space.
     lands.

Space had a long-legged seat.  At another birth Cloudy heavens brought forth a head.  This was the head that was said to have fallen from the heavens.  Space set it up on his high stool and said to it, “O beloved! be a son—­be a second with me on the earth.”  Space started back, for all of a sudden the body of a man-child was added to the head.  The child was sensible, and inquired who his father was.  Space replied, “Your father is yonder in the East, yonder in the West, yonder towards the sea, and yonder in-land, yonder above and yonder below.”  Then the boy said, “I have found my name, call me All the sides of heaven.”  And from him sprang the four divisions, East, West, North, and South.  He grew up to manhood, went to the North, married and had children.  Went to the South, married and had children.  Went to the East, married and had children.  Went to the West, married and had children.  He then went up to the heavens, and told all his children to follow him.

4.  The children of Ilu, worm, and Mamao, distant, were:—­

(1) Papa tu, or great rocks. (2) Papa one, or sandy rocks. (3) Papa ele, or earthy rocks. (4) Masina, or the moon. (5) La, or the sun. (6) Sami, or the sea. (7) Vai, or fresh water.

These were all sons, and then there were two daughters, the one named Great wind and the other Gentle wind.

They all separated and lived apart, but the sea was shut up.  Then the children said, “Let the sea be set free and allowed to come out that we may look at it.”  This was done, and then the three kinds of rocks were flooded and died, but the sun and the moon fled to the heavens and lived.

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