Small Washington Tablet (R, RR 15)

This tablet sometimes has been called Atua-mata-riri (God with angry eyes), but that was (according to Fischer) based on a mistake. Because when Thomson showed Ure Va'e Iko the tablets RR15 and RR16 he refused to chant. It was only when he was presented with photographs of Bishop Jaussen's tablets that he sang out.

Fischer has reconstructed the text of Ure and it begins like this:

'Atua Mata Riri

1. 'Atua Mata Riri ki 'ai ki roto ki 'a Taporō: ka pu te poporo.

God Mata Riri (Angry Eyes, an epithet) copulated with Sweet Lime (a Tahitian loan): There issued forth the poporo plant (Solanum forsteri).

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