How Tatau came to Samoa

Today we read a story about how Tatau came to Samoa.  It started quite a long time ago and there conjoined twins. One the goddess of canoeing and one goddess of swimming. Once they swam to Fiji and got taught a song. Women were to be tattooed and were not to be tattooed. Soon It as time to leave Fiji and they started swimming back. Then they found a clam and started swimming down to get it. But then they felt sea sick and swam back up to the surface. When they got back to Samoa they got the song muddled and and said men are to be tattooed and are not to be tattooed. For many years they only tattooed men but eventually they were able to.