In the Mota stories of the Banks Islands, 'Qat had a wife, a female vui, Iro Lei by name,' though he had no children. His eleven brothers envied him the possession of the beautiful Iro Lei and of his fine canoe, and repeatedly tried to destroy him so that they might take both. In the best-known episode they induced Qat to crawl into the burrow of a land-crab beneath a stone which they had undermined, and toppled the stone upon him; thinking him crushed, they ran off to seize Ro Lei and the canoe, but Qat called on his friend, the spider-spirit Marawa, crying 'Marawa! take me round about to Ro Lei,' and when the brothers reached the village Qat was sitting at his wife's side. Iro Lei, the spirit-wife, is distinct from Iro Vilgale, the first woman of the Banks Islands creation account, whom Qat fashioned of rods and rings of supple twigs covered with the spathes of sago-palms.