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Ever since our island people
could remember,
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Bora Bora
had been the home of the gods.
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Home of Kanaloa,
King of the Underworld...
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of Pele,
the little mother of volcanoes...
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of Ta'aora, god of the ocean waters,
god of the winds and the storms,
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of Mano the shark, who guided his children
through secret pathways of the sea
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when they were lost,
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and of great Kane,
father of the universe
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and all that lived therein.
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And so it remained
until in the days of Kanakoa the King
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there came upon the people of this island
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the most terrible anguish
that can afflict the spirit of man...
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a time when the gods
began to change.
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For in that day there arose a new god
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whose appetite for human sacrifice
heaped the altars high with his dead...
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Oro. Oro whose eyes
were the eyes of death.
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So King Kanakoa
called together his people and said,
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"This new god, this Oro,
is a god of vengeance and wrath.
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Let us run away from him."
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The State Canoe of Bora Bora
was the swiftest vessel
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in all the oceans of the world.
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They filled it with roots and seeds
to plant in a new land