But there was one brother who should not have been called “forgetful.” He was the eldest brother, Ma-ui Mua, and he was sometimes called Lu-pe. He may have been forgetful about many things that the skillful Ma-ui took account of, but he was not forgetful of his sister, of Hina-of-the-Sea.
His great and skillful brother had set Hina-of-the-Sea wandering. She was married, and her husband often went on journeys with the skillful Ma-ui. And once Ma-ui became angry with him because he ate the bait that they had taken with them for fishing; he became angry with his sister’s husband, and in his anger he uttered a spell over him, and changed his form into the form of a dog.
When Hina-of-the-Sea knew that her husband was lost to her she went down to the shore and she chanted her own death-song:
“I weep, I call upon the steep billows of the sea,
And on him, the great, the ocean god;
The monsters, all now hidden,
To come and bury me,
Who am now wrapped in mourning. [[39]]
Let the waves wear their mourning, too,
And sleep as sleeps the dead.”