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Hine-te-Iwaiwa married Tangaroa and had Tangaroa-a-kiukiu, Tangaroa-a-roto, and Rona. Tangaroa-a-roto and Rona married Te Marama the moon. Hinetakurua married Tama-nui-te-ra, the Sun. [2] Uru-Te-ngangana is believed to be the father of all light, and his children are stars, sun and moon.
In a South Island account, Tinirau, mounted on Tutunui, meets Kae, who is in a canoe. Kae borrows Tutunui, and Tinirau goes on his way to find Hine-te-iwaiwa, travelling on a large nautilus that he borrows from his friend Tautini. When Tinirau smells the south wind he knows that his whale is being roasted (Tregear 1891:110).
In an alternative, different version of the legend of the death of Tūwhakararo, Whakatau is approached for help by Hine-i-te-iwaiwa. He takes six warriors and goes to avenge Tūwhakararo, which he does by first goading the best warriors of the enemy to attack him and kills them one by one and then by sneaking into the house and collapsing it ...
Hare Hongi reports a traditional saying about him: Ko Kahungunu he tangata ahuwhenua; mōhio ki te haere i ngā mahi o uta, me o te tai ("Kahungunu is an industrious man, who knows how to manage works, both on land and at sea") and notes his expertise at village-planning, farming, bird hunting, wood carving, tattooing, flax-weaving, canoe ...
Māui was happy to have his family altogether but unbeknownst to him, his father was upset because made a mistake while chanting the karakia that he knew would one day cost Māui his life. Muriranga-whenua, Māui's grandfather, lived in the underworld with his father and Maui would visit him each day to give him food. [ 4 ]
Māui attempting to enter Hine-nui-te-pō. Carving by Tene Waitere in the meeting house Rauru (opened in 1900). [1] Hinenuitepo meeting house at Te Whaiti in 1930. Hine-nui-te-pō ("the great woman of the night") in Māori legends, is a goddess of night and she receives the spirits of humans when they die.
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Hine-pua, who married Tama-konohi: Karakia-rau: Hikairo, ancestor of Ngāti Hikairo. By Kahungunu, she had five children: [1] Kahukuranui (son) Rongomai-papa (daughter), who married her own maternal grandfather, Ruapani and had a daughter: Ruarauhanga, who married Rākei-hikuroa and was the ancestor of the Te Hika a Ruarauhanga division of ...