Manu Kama, named in parallel as Tepa Nilu, is the traveling protagonist of a Rotinese ritual narrative built on the formula of 'Manu Kama's road and Tepa Nilu's path.' The journey along this road is a recurrent formulaic theme in the island's oral poetry, and sources treat the dyadic name as a single wandering figure whose route organizes the telling. The particulars of the tale vary between reciters.