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Overview
Gill names Tikokura as the storm-wave that accompanies the man-eating shark Tumuitearetoka. Ngaru challenges both at a dry reef. The calm immediately becomes a tempest, and breakers surge unusually far inland.
Ngaru rides out on the retreating water while Moko warns him about the shark. The contest lasts eight days and nights. Finally Ngaru throws his board to the sea beings, who withdraw to their ocean home. Tikokura is a named wave power; the narrative does not give it a separate reptilian or humanoid body.
Origins & earliest records
William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (London: Henry S. King, 1876), X: The Adventures of Ngaru. General contributor acknowledgements name Tereavai and Sadaraka; individual prose narrator not supplied.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected prose narrative and interpretive ending read in consecutive bounded OCR sections. Variant endings and compiler judgments retained as such.
Selected bibliography
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Myths and Songs from the South Pacific, X: The Adventures of Ngaru, pp. 225–226
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- Primary collected textMyths and Songs from the South Pacific, X: The Adventures of Ngaru, pp. 225–226Research access: 2026-10-05
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