[2] A story is told that Huanaki, along with Laga-iki, Fakahoko, Fao, and Lagi-atea, left the lost country (Fonuagalo), because they felt they had not been properly recognized at feasts.
[3] There is yet another local account by the people of Avatele, which says that the gods lived there underground and did not feed their children because they were lazy.
When he also failed at this, Huanaki came up; he and Fao were successful in making the tides go out, producing waves on the ocean.
Fakahoko, Huanaki, Lagaitea and Hatulia were the names of the children of the gods who also stopped living under the earth.
When the female gods came to the earth's surface, they were eaten by a conger, which Hatulia then chopped into four pieces.