Editing Laka (section)

==Marquesas==
In the [[Marquesan]] version of the myth, '''Aka''' is a great voyager, grandson of [[Kaha'i|Tafaki]].  He made a historic voyage to [[Aotona]] ([[Rarotonga]]) in what are now the [[Cook Islands]] to obtain the highly prized feathers of a red parrot as gifts for his son and daughter.  The voyage was done in a great outrigger canoe named Va'ahiva that had 140 rowers. Of these, 100 die of hunger before they reach Aotona, where they capture enough parrots to fill 140 bags with their feathers.<ref name="craig6">R.D. Craig, ''Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology'' (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 6.</ref><ref>E.S.C. Handy, ''Marquesan Legends'' ([[Bernice P. Bishop Museum]] Press: Honolulu, 1930), 130-1.</ref>