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The story cycle around Kae and Sinilau is well known in Polynesian mythology, found in several places (see notes). This article describes the Tongan version, of which the main source is an old poem (Ko e folau ʻa Kae – The voyage of Kae) published in 1876, and some other, incomplete manuscripts. The third player Longopoa in this respect is an outsider. ==Loau== It starts with Loau from Haamea, one of the many Loau known in Tongan history. Haamea may be the place of his ''lepa'' in central Tongatapu, or it may be an alternative name for Sāmoa (Haamoa in Tongan). He ran a famous navigation school on an artificial lake (''lepa'') near Fualu.〔This lake has now silted up, but parts of the depression can still be seen west of Fatai, towards Matangiake and Nafualu (where Siaatoutai theological college is); that is south of the tidal flats of Poloa in the Hihifo district on Tongatapu, not to be confused with Fualu in Pea.〕 Loau's boat was either a tongiaki (an old sailing boat of Tongan design) or a kalia (a better, more modern design originating from Fiji). One day Loau got tired of people taunting him all the time about when he would go for a real trip. So he had his big canoe dragged to the sea and told his ''matāpule'' (chief attendants) Kae and Longopoa, to accompany him to some nearby islands. So they went. But when they passed Haapai, Loau told them to 'sail on past the shore'. The same thing happened at Vavau and then Niuatoputapu, and then Sāmoa, and then Niuafoou, and then Uvea, and then Futuna.〔These islands are towards the north. They are not on a straight track, but did (do) represent increasingly far distances in the Tongan mind.〕 No one realised that Loau had already decided from the beginning to go beyond the horizon and not to return. He wanted to go to the land of the talking ''puko'' trees, probably Pulotu. The ship steered on downwards (i.e. south or west in Tongan navigation sense). They came to a white sea; they came to a floating pumice sea; they came to a slimy sea.〔Perhaps Loau tried to reach New Zealand, but was drifting towards Antarctica, passing through snow, icebergs and a sea full of krill respectively.〕 Eventually they reached the horizon at the end of the sky. There, there is a hole in the sky and a great whirlpool in the ocean, where the waters go in when there is an ebb tide in Tonga, and the waters come out at flood tide. There was also a reef with a pandanus tree and a large rock. The mast of the ship got stuck in the branches of the tree and had to be freed. This was done with a push, and that push caused the ship either to disappear in the whirlpool or through the opening in the sky, lost in space, never to be seen again. Kae and Longopoa did not await this happening. They had agreed to desert this foolish trip and they made it back to the reef, Kae clinging to the tree, and Longopoa to the rock. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kae and Longopoa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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