Tane assumed perfect form and became the god of beauty ( te atua o te purotu ). Ta'aroa exalted Tane in power, and he became the god of craftsmen. Another of the major gods, Ro'o, was born of a cloud and became the colleague and messenger of Tane. At a later period, Atea changed sex with Fa'ahotu to become a male, the sex attributed to Atea in the myths of other islands. The Tahitian myth of the creation of man is lacking in detail. Ta'aroa with the aid of Tu, the great artisan, created Ti'i, the first human being. The word rahu (to create) is used, but as one of the names of Ti'i is given as Ti'i-ahu-one (Ti'i-mounded-from-earth) it is apparent that he was formed from earth. He married the goddess Hina, daughter of Te Fatu (Lord, Core) and Fa'ahotu (To-begin-to-form). The children of Ti'i and Hina intermarried in the period of darkness with the gods of that era. The children whom they conceived were the ancestors of the high chiefs entitled to wear the red feather girdles denoting the highest rank, but the children whom they simply conjured up became the progenitors of the common people. In another version, Ti'i created a woman from earth at Atiauru, took her to wife, and committed incest with his daughter to beget the first man. Another story states that Ta'aroa married Hine-ah-one (Earth-formed-maid) and produced Ti'i as the first man. The three versions are mentioned because we will meet them later.