Title: Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands : Notebook 5

Author: John Joseph Knight Hutchin

Editor: Percy Hall

In: Collected songs and legends from the southern Cook Islands

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

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Tangiia Becomes a God

Atura raua e tangata tei vao. Te tuku mai nei i vao i te tara i te are. Eaa i kore ei e kapiki ia atu, tera ake rai, rave ia mai ra ki ro i te are, ko te Atua anga ia o Tangiia i topa ia ai te ingoa o te ariki tara are ki te ariki i tu i te tara are o Rongo ma Tane. Tera te ingoa o te teina ko Akatauira, ko te Akatauira ua anga o Tangiia ki runga i te Maunga ko Ikurangi. E oti akera kua noo ua rai te tangata ma te ariki.¹