One-u'i ('the sand-woman') is the consort of 'Atea in the pu'e (sacred creation chant) tradition of the Marquesas — the alternative to the Atanua tradition. Handy records that the pu'e recounts the impregnation of One-u'i by 'Atea, naming plants as 'births by One-u'i' after impregnation to provide materials for the house of the first parents; the 'mothers of various kinds of material' are invoked to furnish the construction. She is the mother of the first man, Tiki. The pu'e was tapu to teach to women, who were excluded from its recitation. Her name (one 'sand/earth') marks the pan-Polynesian sand-formed-woman motif (cf. Maori Hine-ahu-one).