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by Micha F. Lindemans

A hero in the myths of Aitutaki (one of the Cook Islands). He is a son of Tahiti Tokerau. He once rescued a heron from the jaws of a sea-serpent. The grateful heron, who was really an elf, shows him how to dig out a tree trunk to make a canoe.