It is [still] dark, [but] the day is dawning;

The woman Ui and Lua-ma'a

Start on their journey before daylight,

And take with them a bag [containing the offering].

Above them were the fetau and the fasa trees;

They set up there their offering.

Ui sat up in the fasa tree at Sanga.

Sun, Sun, stand thou forth with thy [glorious] presence.

Thither he flew, intending to stand on the fasa.

Ui speaks—

O Sun, come here;

To eat your man alive for food.

The Sun speaks—

O Ui, I desire to drink kava.

Ui speaks—

Let me explain about the kava;

This is the kava [planting] of an industrious man;

It stood in a rocky place;

It grew there and was reserved for a special use;

The pieces of its root were scattered about;

I will split up these roots of kava;

And I will scrape them with the kava scraper;

And strain it out with the strainer, that it may be clear;

I will rinse out my mouth; and now let me chew it.

La speaks—

O Ui, search the bag;

Bring forth the ‘fau’ strainer from the bag;

Strain out the kava.

Ui replies—

I am about to mix the kava with water,

But I will mix it in a ‘tava'-wood bowl;

I will strain it that it may be quite clear.

Now I will proceed to portion out the kava;

Let me spread out the cold food [that goes with the kava].

O Sun, eat thou;

There is a taro; it is a ‘maga-na'a’

There is a taro; it is a ‘fai-fai-tagata’;

There is a fish; it is an ‘ata'ata’;

There is a fish caught at the mouth of the reef-opening;

There is a fish hatched in the rock.

There is a fowl, full grown and plump.

Let your food be changed to that;

Eat the bonito of the deep.

But, first, let me make an explanation [to you];

None of our family is here for you to eat.

Turn thy face this way;

There is none of our family in [this] thy food.

‘Ui, come here to me, [says La,]

There is a chief in thy womb.

When he is born, call him Tanga;

[In] Atafu-uli, and Atafu-mea.'