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Ina’s mother warns that bright sunlight keeps Ngana away from the household’s treasures. Watching from nearby bushes, he uses an incantation to obscure the sun and tries to seize the ornaments. Ina prevents the first attempt but agrees to let him try them on indoors. She closes the doors and initially withholds the feathered head-dress. His flattering words persuade her to surrender that last item as well.

Ngana dances around the room until he finds a gable opening only a few inches across. In a single bound he takes flight through it with the ornaments, and Ina’s parents later see him passing proudly through the sky. The theft triggers their violent punishment of Ina and her departure toward Tinirau. Gill’s prose gives Ngana supernatural weather-changing and flight abilities but no animal species or fixed monstrous anatomy.

Solar obscuration by incantationPersuasive disguise of intentSky flight through small opening
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Origins & earliest records

William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London: Henry S. King, 1876), VI: Ina’s Voyage to the Sacred Isle, pp. 88–90. The individual prose narrator is not named in these sections.

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    Myths and Songs from the South Pacific: VI: Ina’s Voyage to the Sacred Isle, pp. 88–90

    William Wyatt Gill, collector and translator · 1876

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  1. Primary collected textGill 1876, VI: Ina’s Voyage to the Sacred Isle, pp. 88–90Research access: 2026-10-05

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