Kanaloa in stone formation of coastal areas

Teuira Henry, her book, Ancient Tahiti, Bulletin 48, B.P.B.M. page 382:

(Ta'aroa = Kanaloa)

Stone was possessed with godly power. Tumu-nui and Tumu-iti, from which the world developed into its present state, were filled with the spirit of the great god, Ta'aroa. Among the rocks of the Pari (Bluffs), of the coast of Taiarapu, Tahiti, reposes a stone named Ta'aroa-ofa'i-i-te-Pari (Ta'aroa-in-stone-of-the-bluffs), of ancient history, which is as follows: A long time ago, after Tahiti had come away to the east, a man went one evening to fish with hook and line among the rocks, and he had not been out long when he felt something drawing his hook of shell away, so thinking it was a fish, he pulled it up only to find that he had hold of a tenacious stone, clinging by some unseen power to the hook. Detaching it with difficulty, he cast the stone off into deep water, and tried anew to catch fish. But soon his hook was caught again by the stone, which he drew up and cast away as before; and so he continued all the evening trying to catch fish, but only getting his hook foul of the stone in whatever direction he cast his line. So at last he carried the stone to the shore, and on examining it in the daylight with the priests, it was revealed to them that it was possessed with the spirit of Ta'aroa, and they placed it in a crevice of the Pari on Taiarapu, where it has ever since remained, and fisherman rendered it homage due to Ta'aroa. It became the fisherman's god of that region, and fish were presented to it.

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