Rezumu badak iha lian Tetun: Istória ne'ebé ema konta kona-ba ema ne'ebé mosu mai liuhusi bee kuak iha foho tutun sira ka husi bee-matan sira. Balun tun husi foho hodi hela iha rai fehan no halo natar balun fila ba foho. Major Ko'o Raku bolu ema sira ne'ebé fila ba foho 'Butu'. Butu husi futu (ular). Nia hateten katak sira mak jerasaun husi Tirilolo/Aubaca (Au Baka). Tuir istória ne'ebé ema konta, Butu sira nia isin no ibun fulun barak, sira hela iha foho no halo to'os no hare maran. Mézmuke sira hasoru natar na'in rai fehan sira, sira hela keta-ketak. Major Ko'o Raku konta hananu rituál ho lian Makassae tuirmai:
'Butu usa, nasa nasa loi casa 
Gel bobo, bobo casa gel
Loi Lau Kati Lau mu'a gasi
Rim liu gas rini'
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In some stories from north-central Timor, people emerge together with water out of caves on mountain peaks. In other stories they emerge out of springs closer to the coast. What is also interesting is that in many of these stories, those that emerged from the mountain peaks are said to have spread out from there to populate the world beyond, some even travelling across the seas, returning later with the heightened knowledge of fire and metals, water and wet rice production. While some of these 'explorers' returned to their original mountain and dry land rocky abodes, others are said to have returned to settle by the springs which are scattered across Baucau's coastal marine terrace zone. From this point the stories tell us they began producing wet rice. Meanwhile another group is said to have arrived into the region from Luang (Leti) by way of Laga and travelled up to (re)settle in the mountains of Matebian. Major Ko'o Raku refers to these people as the Butu generation (other named groups with a similar migration pattern are called Luang), Dala Hitu (see below) and Makasar). Overtime these Butu people began to descend from the high rocky outcrops of mountains and settled in the savanna plain to the south of Baucau. As they were largely dry land farmers, these Butu people are counterposed with the wet rice farming people from the coast[i]. They are also characterized as 'hairy people' with extremely long facial and armpit hair, even hairy mouths. While the Butu people eventually established relations with the coastal zone growers of irrigated rice, the division between largely dry land peoples and those living around the rice paddies and lush spring groves of the marine terrace zone was for a long time a jealously guarded boundary. A Makasae ritual poem (masa) recounts:

'I Loilau Katilau [ancestors of a founding house of Boile Komu in Baucau] 
make my rice fields and swidden here
I ban you from descending
You live in your place in the rocks up above'. 

Overtime Butu men, some of whom descended through underground water sources, married into the families of these coastal irrigated rice growers and the cultures intermingled resulting in complicated ritual governance relations (see Chapter 4 and 6). According to Major Ko'o Raku, Butu people have a sacred or lulik connection to futu, a Makassae word meaning subterranean termites. 

[i]Butu in this context can also mean growers of dry land cereals.