Tairi hia’tura te rauti i te hiti o te umu raparau faahou, atura te tahua.  Te Vahine tahura’i e po’ia te tu’u raa ia o te avae iroto i te umu, ei reira toa te mau taata i hinaaro i te haere na roto i te umu ra e haere.  Ai na muri iho eiaha ra te hoe taata e fariu imuri; te taata hopea ra te tuo i te tahua e fariu; na fariu ia, mai te mea e tuo te taata i ropu e fariu, tau roa te taata i ropu e fariu, pau roa te taata i te auahi; na reira toa ia haere no te aano o te umu.

Te i te huru o taua ohipa ra, e ohipa tiaporo te tumu ia i taua ohipa a Tupua ra.

E vahine varua ino teie tona ioa o te Vahine tahura’i.  O pirae uri, o pirae tea, i ore ratou ia parau hia.

Aita e faufaa i taua ohipa ra.  Eiaha Roa’tu orua a rave i taua ohipa ra i te fenua Papa’a na e ama te taata i te anahi, no te mea e ere i te ohipa mau, e ohipa varua ino no te po te reira te huru o taua ohipa a Tupua ra.

Tereira te mau havi rii i roa’a mai ia’u no tau a ohipa ra.  Tirara.

Taumihau tane.

This is the word of the oven of Tupua.

This is the way he did that thing.  He cut three fathoms of wood.  The oven was three fathoms long and three wide.  Heap up the wood the first day, and carry by sea the stones for the oven.

Do not take the stones of the marae, for the marae receives the evil spirits, the spirit of the god of the night.

The first night of the ceremony, the sorcerers of Raiatea, Tupua and his kind, march around the oven.  They seek the spirits of the men of the night, and they go about the oven, but they do not light the fire.

That same night one goes to find the sacred leaves of the ti.  He takes the leaves that float in the wind; those called raoere ti, and which are used as medicine.  He gathers the leaves and carries them to the oven.

The fire is lighted at four of the morning.  When the fire is burning brightly, and the oven is very hot, the sorcerer gives his assistants charge of the fire, and instructs them as to their duties.

When the flames are down, Tupua approached the oven, and before walking upon it, he pronounced the following prayer.

“O men about the oven!  Piraeuri and Piraetea!  Let us join the army of the gods in the furnace!”

Then, said Tupua: 

“O water, go in the fire!  O sea water, go in the fire!”

Waving the ti leaves on the border of the oven, Tupua said: 

“O Woman who puts the fire in the heaven and in the clouds, permit us to go on foot over the oven!”

Then those who wish to, pass onto the oven, one after another.  If but one falls all will be burned.  The last must watch the sorcerer, to return when he makes the sign.

That is the way this deed, the deed of the devil, is done by Tupua.

The woman called Vahine tahura’i is an evil spirit.

Concerning Piraeuri and Piritea, Tupua would better not have spoken, as it was a useless prayer.