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Two men of the royal Miru tribe were walking to the well known bay of Hotu Iti where there was an abundance of fish and lobster.\u00a0 On the way, they stole a chicken to eat later in the day, one of the few birds which belonged to a very old woman.\u00a0 Furious at this thievery, Mea Kahis, the god of fishermen, caused them to fail in their fishing.\u00a0 At sunset, angry and tired, one of the men went to a nearby cave where they had hidden the chicken and fell asleep with the chicken, while his companion lit torches in the night to attract fish and lobster, hoping to change the bad luck that had followed them all the day.\u00a0 At dawn the second man finally went to the cave, tired and in a very bad mood.\u00a0 Since they had nothing else to eat, they killed the chicken, cleaned it and threw the interiors into a Pokopoko (a natural basin) near the cave which is called Tuki Haka He Vari. After eating, they went home.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3dce508f-5faa-4272-93e2-407f05307624.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
With the first rays of sunlight, A Ure, an elderly woman, went out to collect Auke, a seaweed which grows plentifully in Hotu Iti.\u00a0 Passing by the basin, A Ure was startled to see that it was full of blood and noticed that among the intestines of the chicken a baby boy was moving.\u00a0 The old lady, married for many years but with no children, freed the child and washed him off in the warm water of the sea.\u00a0 She ran home to tell her husband of her find and ask his approval to keep the child as their own son.\u00a0 The years went by.\u00a0 The child, whom the old people named Auviri, grew up and was notable, not only for his beauty and physical strength, but also for his wisdom, his abilities in the martial arts and his talent for fishing.\u00a0 The child was the joy of the old couple, who had never told him about his past.\u00a0 When Auviri turned 18, his parents took him to the annual Vai Arenga festival, celebrated with dancing, singing and a great feast in honor of the god Make Make, creator of the world, and in commemoration of the change of the season of the rains to that of good weather.\u00a0 At the festival, the serious songs, like the Ate Atua, were sung and the dancing was done by both sexes but separately.\u00a0 There Auviri met Koe Mata, a charming young woman with whom he immediately fell in love.\u00a0 As great as his love was his sorrow, since Koe Mata\u2019s father was the chief of a neighboring tribe.\u00a0 Because of the difference in rank of their parents, Auviri couldn\u2019t even think of marrying the girl.When A Ure saw how her son was suffering, she decided to tell him the story of his strange birth and confess that she was not his mother. \u00a0Auviri began to search over the entire island to see who might be his father, that man who slept with the chicken.\u00a0 After long wandering, he found the fisherman who had accompanied the supposed father on the night of his birth and he told him the name.\u00a0 Auviri found his father, who received him and listened to his story.\u00a0 Due to the great resemblance between the two, he recognized him as his son and received him in his house.\u00a0 Now that Auviri was under the powerful protection of the royal Miru tribe, the parents of the lovely girl had no reason to deny their permission.\u00a0 They married and lived very happily.\u00a0 When his father died, Auviri became chief of his tribe and great is the fame of the man who was born of a chicken.<\/p>\n
The Man who was born from a Chicken Two men of the royal Miru tribe were walking to the well known bay of Hotu Iti where there was an abundance of fish and lobster.\u00a0 On the way, they stole a chicken to eat later in the day, one of the few birds which belonged to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moevarua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}