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Overview

After Ina’s first shark abandons her in the ocean, Tekea the Great appears and takes her on his wide back. Eight approaching shapes initially look like canoes but prove to be sharks intent on devouring her. Tekea tells Ina to warn them that he will tear them to shreds. The warning makes them retreat, and the voyage continues.

Near the Sacred Isle, ten ground sharks come from its shores to attack. Fear of the king of sharks again disperses them. Tekea lands Ina safely and returns to his home in mid-ocean. His protection is part of the larger account in which Tinirau supplies aid to the voyager. The prose names Tekea and gives a broad back and royal authority, but supplies neither a numerical body length nor a modern shark species.

Wide carrying backAuthority over attacking sharksMid-ocean dwelling
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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. 92–93. 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. 92–93

    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. 92–93Research access: 2026-10-05

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