Note 57 — CONTENTS.
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The men entered and asked: “Where is the child who came into this house?” “There is no child; I am alone.” Her husband saw this, so he came with the intention of killing these men (because it was against the law to have any man enter a house where a woman was and her husband not present). The husband asked: “Why are you here?” “We pursued a child. He ran and entered this house.” “There is a child, but it is in that one’s womb. What shall be done?” asked the husband. The men went to seek a pig, a white chicken, black coconut, red fish, red kapa and awa root, and offered them as sacrifice to the child;57 after which they went off. He was named Maui; but he was not yet born.