any offer of food even if he had just eaten a large meal…(21)Laaumatua is a mirror image of Tausamitele. Laaumatua and Tausamitele both have unfulfilled appetite. They are continuously hungry and will always be willing to eat even though they’ve just eaten. They also won’t turn down any meal that is given to them. Moaula is similar to Lelemalosi in the saga of Pili. Just before evening lotu Faleasa saw Moaula arriving from the plantation with a heavy load of taro. (He had always been amazed by his son’s physical strength.)……looking bigger still in falling gloom, he stretched his arms and back and looked over at his father. (29)In Pili’s saga Lelemalosi is described as a person having strong flight. Lelemalosi is similar to Moaula because to be a strong person a person must have physical strength to be able to do things as carry a heavy load of taro into the village or fly Pili and Tausamitele up to the Ninth Heaven. Tausamitele and Moaula help Pili and Faleasa by helping to conceal what they were doing. Moaula by acting as the new council leader and meeting each matai leader to describe what action should be done at the next council meeting while Tausamitele helps Pili by completing his second tasks which he had to “race the giants down a river which was alive with treacherous rapids, whirlpools, and waterfalls.” (96)In the end, Pili’s saga as well as Faleasa’s story comes up short in achieving their goals. Faleasa was aware of the tragic end to Pili’s saga and didn’t do anything to change the outcome. That same night Pili vanished from Malaelua. Some Malaeluans claimed that he had jumped up and been swallowed by his friend Pouliuli and would refuse to become visible again.The story does not tell us why Faleasa didn’t do anything to change the outcome of his plan so that it wouldn’t end tragically as in Pili’s saga. Faleasa examines some of...
