The Monster Eel - How The Coconut Was Acquired As Food by The Piper Machine
The Tuamotu Polynesian's legend of the battle between Te Tuna, or Phallus, the monster eel, and Maui, the Wonder-worker, and how Te Tuna's planted head produced the first coconuts.
Taken from the lips of Fariua-a-Makitua, of Fagatu, by JF Stimson, in The Legends of Maui and Tahaki, rendered by Joseph Campbell in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology
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