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References
- ↑ Jan Knappert (1995). Pacific mythology : an encyclopedia of myth and legend. London: Diamond Books. p. 21.
- R.D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 13-14;
- T. Henry, Ancient Tahiti (Bernice P. Bishop Museum: Honolulu, 1928), 470–495.
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