Before the stars found their home among the skies, and before the oceans and lands agreed on their boundaries, the gods filled the heavens. Powerful yet foolish, they spent thousands of years merely reveling in vain beauty, but the king of the gods, Enago, wanted more in the cosmos to rule over than his body. He declared that every god and goddess create a galaxy to bring more glory to the heavens. The universe exploded into action, but two gods struggled to meet the king’s demands: Ulani and Fuzu.
Ulani’s mesmerizing presence struck Fuzu. He chased her across the entire universe trying to set traps among the blooming stars and planets. However, Ulani’s independent nature refused to be caged by his love. She set out into the void searching for an empty galaxy to avoid Fuzu’s relentless pursuit. She mocked his efforts, and a laughing trail of comets went swirling through the heavens, mocking him at every chance. Fuzu begged for Ulani’s love, but nothing worked. Her heart remained unconquered.
Hundreds of years passed and Fuzu’s chase for Ulani continued, but in his haste, Fuzu began destroying the worlds created by other gods. Furious, the other gods tried to destroy Fuzu, and war almost broke out among the heavens. King Enago tired of trying to stop the fighting with demand that Fuzu stop his foolishness, but instead of agreeing, Fuzu pleaded with the king to help him capture Ulani. Fuzu’s heart seethed with bitterness at Ulani’s constant mockery, and he wanted to destroy her. In hopes of creating peace and finally receiving a new galaxy from Fuzu, King Enago agreed to help trap Ulani.
King Enago went to Ulani’s empty galaxy and pricked his finger. A single drop of his blood created a planet without form, and Enago told Fuzu this was where he could trap Ulani. Laying in wait, Fuzu hid in the void waiting for Ulani’s return. As she streamed into the galaxy unaware of Fuzu’s presence, the existence of the formless planet startled her. As she examined the depths of the planet, Fuzu pounced and forced her body down onto the planet’s surface. Her eyes filled with terror, and she screamed out with such force that the galaxy began to spin. Her breath whipped across the surface of the land, the winds screaming to be freed. Fuzu, full of rage, ripped Ulani’s limbs from her body and forced them into the soil. All manner of plant life sprang forth on these new lands. Ulani pleaded for her freedom and cried the rivers into existence. The blood from her body mixed with her tears, becoming the waters of the earth. Ulani’s blood still dances in the waters at sunset. Fuzu ripped out her tongue and set fire to it. He tossed the burning tongue over his shoulder and it rested in the galaxy, creating light for the earth. Her hair and organs became creatures that roamed the world, mute of speech and intelligence. Fuzu’s bitter heart would not stop until he had completely destroyed Ulani’s freedom.
So, he plucked her right eye from its place and formed women to inhabit the world. He created a weak creature with all the cleverness of Ulani. And in true revenge, he tried to strip Ulani’s strength of will from her daughters. Ulani’s heart began to break as Fuzu’s plan took form. Fuzu plucked his left eye from his face and formed mankind to rule over Ulani and her daughters. He made their strength unquestionable, but his sour nature concerning the goddess also transferred into man. Lastly, Fuzu plunged his hand into Ulani and ripped her heart from her chest. Holding the heart above his head in victory, Ulani’s blood fell upon his face and seeped into his eye. With the union of Ulani’s blood, he realized what he had done. He looked on his sons and their mimicking actions inspired horror in him. Fuzu’s sons found their strength intoxicating and bore down hard upon the earth and its daughters.
Crying out, Fuzu raised his hand to strike down his sons, but King Enago shackled Fuzu’s hands, already loving Fuzu’s world. Fuzu realized he would have to watch Ulani’s daughters forever suffer under the wrath of his sons, and Fuzu in his sorrow began to cry with an attempt to flood the earth below. But man survived. After he failed to destroy the strength and cruelty of man, Fuzu ripped his own heart from his chest, and in agony, took up Ulani’s heart once more, burying his and Ulani’s heart in the earth. The hearts transformed into a seedling in a barren land that men had not found yet.
Fuzu hoped one day that a daughter of Ulani would discover Ulani’s independence and seek the tree of conjoined hearts. If Ulani’s daughter found their tree and cut it down, he knew Enago would not be able to hold Ulani captive anymore and the prison walls of earth would crumble around them. Then Ulani would have her freedom. Now whenever the earth quakes or the seas roar beyond their bounds, men say that it’s Ulani trying to break free from her prison of Fuzu’s earthly grip. Fuzu’s tears still water the earth as his sons destroy the earth created of Ulani and her daughters that inhabit it. When the massive tree of freedom grows into fullness, and a daughter of Ulani treks across the barren land to find it, the chains will be broken and both mother and daughter will be free again.
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