Also known as Tii. 204

“While it may be an open question whether the Tahitians came by the way of Samoa or direct from Fiji, Tahitian legends claim that one Tii was the first ancestor of Tahitian chiefs on Tahitian soil. Subsequent generations elevated him to the position of a demi-god and grandson of Taaroa, the southern god par excellence of a later creed. But Hawaiian legends claim this same Tii or Kii - who was the last of the thirteen from Wakea that lived elsewhere than on the Hawaiian group - as the father of Nanaulu, with whom Hawaiian aristocracy on Hawaiian soil commences; while his brother Ulu remained at the south, and became the ancestor of that enterprising race of chiefs who six hundred years later overran the Pacific, from the Tonga group to the Hawaiian, who who gave rise to an era of commotion and unrest among the Polynesian tribes, the memory whereof is vividly retained in the Hawaiian folklore.” 204

“From these two (Maweke and Paumakua) the bare stems without collateral offshoots run up to Kii, and from him to Wakea. . . If we now count from Nanaulu and Ulu, admitted by all genealogies and legends of both lines to have been brothers and sons of Kii, down to Maweke and Paumakua, we find only fifteen generations on the former line, and twenty-five and twenty-four respectively on the two divisions of the latter line, besides the discrepancies between the two divisions themselves, some making the Puna branch even longer than the Hema branch. . . . Of Kii, No. 13 on the list, and the last of the first series, nothing is known except that he was the father of the two brothers, Nanaulu and Ulu, from whom the northern and southern Polynesians respectively claimed their descent, and in whose time the probable separation of the two branches took place.” 204