ABSTRACT
There was a woman of Tebongiroro named Nei Matamona, whose habit it was to bathe on the eastern beach at sunrise. And when the sun rose, he saw her every day; so he loved her, and sent one of his rays to her as she bathed. The ray entered between her thighs. And behold! she was pregnant. These were the names of Nei Matamona’s children by the Sun: Tongea and Tangea, Nakianga and Maau-kitekite, and Bue, and the youngest child a girl, their sister Nei Te-raa-iti. These were the children of the Sun, but the first four died, and only Bue with his sister Nei Te-raa-iti remained alive. The Sun took Nei Te-raa-iti away, and built her an enclosure of rock in the East. Only Bue remained in Tebongiroro.
