Note 16 — TAHITI
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The “cloak” of the family is the rain; the Tevas are the “children of the Mist.” Not so many years ago, one of the ladies of the family, perhaps the old Queen of Raiatea, objected to some protection from rain for her son, who was about to land in some ceremony. “Let him wear his cloak!” she said. And of course there are traditions of weather that belong to the family, that accompany it, and that presage or announce coming events.