In the creation myth of the Society Islands, Ta'aroa creates Tumu-nui and his wife Paparaharaha as foundations for the Earth.
[1] Ta'aroa commanded them to approach one another, but they both refused as each had a fixed place in the earth.
When he was lost at sea, his nephew Rata became king.
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