The story cycle around Kae and Sinilau is well known in Polynesian mythology, found in several places (see notes).
Haʻamea may be the place of his lepa in central Tongatapu, or it may be an alternative name for Samoa (Haʻamoa in Tongan).
So he had his big canoe dragged to the sea and told his matāpule (chief attendants) Kae and Longopoa, to accompany him to some nearby islands.
They had agreed to desert this foolish trip and they made it back to the reef, Kae clinging to the tree, and Longopoa to the rock.
When it got dark and the flood current came out again, Kae suggested Longopoa that they should find a way to escape from the island, every man for himself.
The place where he landed was on the coral sand beach of ʻAkana (Aʻana in Samoan), the western part of ʻUpolu.
He was friendlily received by the high chief of the area, Sinilau, who gave him status, more than he ever had gotten in Tonga, but not enough to enter the kava circle.
But then he was seized by a longing for Tonga to tell about all the wonderful things he had seen, and he announced to Sinilau that he wanted to go.
Sinilau's aunt[5] had a daughter who one day ate a piece of whalemeat, which was left over in the house.
She got pregnant and bore a twin, who were named Tonga and Tununga-tofuaʻa (tofuaʻa: whale).
And when you have reached your home, before you go to your relatives, prepare a bunch of coconuts, scented oil, some unpainted tapa and a floormat, give it to them to return to me."
He told his relatives what had happened, and then shouted out to all his friends from Fatai and Matafonua and Lakepa and so on, that they came with knives and spears and axes to slaughter those whales on the beach.
Tununga was killed, cut in pieces, the meat was distributed to all the chiefs of the different districts, and eaten by the people of the whole island.
A depression in the middle of the tidal flats, a fishing pool is still visible as a result of its struggle to get away.
Sinilau was extremely displeased about Kae's behaviour, when Tonga told him what had happened, after he had arrived at ʻAkana; with his back full of spears, and without the promised items.
Meanwhile, a big kava bowl was brought and all the parts and shit the gods had collected in Tonga was thrown in, and see after having left it to itself for a while, suddenly Tunungatofuaʻa came back to life.
He was only missing one tooth, as the Tongans had brought that[9] as a gift to the Tuʻi Tonga in Muʻa, which had made it untouchable even for the gods.
And when Longopoa cried that he was hungry, the tree instructed him to make and light a ʻumu, and then to break off one of its branches and to roast it.
But then it was too late, the blessings were spoilt and the puko trees of nowadays produce no food whatsoever.