In Hawaiian mythology he fights with Māui, who is having an affair with his wife Hina.
A green shoot emerges from the spot where the head was buried, and grows into the first coconut palm.
[1] In the mythology of Mangaia Tuna is the lover of Hine, and asks that his head be cut off and planted in order to stop a flood.
[2][3] A variant of the story is told in the Samoan myth of Sina and the Eel.
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