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Updated: May 22, 2025
A lady called Ui, and her brother Luamaa, fled from Papatea and reached Manu'a, but alas! the sun there too was demanding his daily victims. It went the round of the houses, and when all had given up one of their number it was again the turn of the first house to supply an offering. The body was laid out on a Pandanus tree, and there the sun devoured it.
To this the Samoans compare a brother who will rush in among troops after his wounded brother even if he should be killed himself. Illustrating Migrations, etc. Of the group generally, it is said that a couple lived at Pulotu called Head of Day and Tail of Day. The four went to visit Papatea. Pulotu is in the west, Papatea in the east.
Elo and his warriors went back to Pulotu. Langi and Tala after a time came to Samoa, but went round by way of Papatea, and from them also the people of Manono and Apolima are said to have sprung. 2 MANU'A. This name embraces three islands at the east end of the Samoan group. Manu'a means wounded.
In this connection Papatea in the Eastward again comes up as the place where the sacrifices were offered. When the sun rose he called for a victim, and the same when he set. This continued for eighty days, and the population of the island was fast passing away.
Another story says that Lu came from the west with his fowls, and that from his crew all the islands of the group were peopled. He was said to have come from Pulotu, Papatea, Pau, Vau, Aoao, and Ngaelu. Others say he came with his fowls direct from Tafiti apaau, or the Winged Fiji. Two of the people of Tangaloa of the heavens came down to fish.
They went, they fought, they conquered, and made a clean sweep of Papatea; and hence the proverb: "Like the rage of Elo." Also for a village destroyed in battle they say: "Ua faa Papateaina" made to be like Papatea. All who fled to the bush were sought and killed, only those who fled to sea escaped.
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