Masåla appears in the Puntan Påtgon (Child's Point) legend of northern Guam as the strongest man of the Marianas in the age when giants were said to live in the islands. He grew jealous of his own small son, whose casual feats — such as tearing a coconut palm out of the ground to bare the burrow of an ayuyu (coconut crab) — began to outshine the father's fame. When Masåla flew into a rage, the frightened child ran to the island's northernmost point at Jinapsan (Hinapsan) and leapt across some forty miles of sea to the southern tip of Luta (Rota), leaving a giant footprint in the rock on each island. The tale explains the placename Puntan Påtgon and is told as a lesson about mamåhlao, the CHamoru value of humility and shame, which Masåla's pride and envy violated; in some tellings the child who made the leap grew up to become the great chief Taga.