piraetea

Updated: April 30, 2025

Piraeuri and Piraetea! Let us join the army of the gods in the furnace!" Then, said Tupua: "O water, go in the fire! O sea water, go in the fire!" Waving the ti leaves on the border of the oven, Tupua said: "O Woman who puts the fire in the heaven and in the clouds, permit us to go on foot over the oven!" Then those who wish to, pass onto the oven, one after another.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.