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Tama-te-rangi now led a war party against Tu-te-kohi to get revenge for his family's earlier defeat and expulsion from the Tūranga region. The force gathered at Te Mania in Marumaru, but when they were about to depart, Tama-te-rangi would not come out to perform the tohi ritual, without which the war party could not set out.
Tapuwae Poharutanga o Tukutuku was a Māori upoko ariki (head chieftain) of the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi and Ngāi Tamaterangi hapū in the Wairoa area of Hawke Bay of New Zealand.He developed a fierce rivalry with his brother, Te Maaha, and as a result, their father, Te Okuratawhiti, split the Wairoa River valley between them, giving Tapuwae the eastern bank.
Rakaipaaka's nephew Tama-te-rangi decided to go to war with his neighbours Ngāi Tauira because of an insult that his son had received from their rangatira, Mutu, and he sent his sons Rakai-hakeke and Tama-te-hua to Rakaipaaka with a calabash of huahua (cooked birds, preserved in their own fat) to seek his assistance.
Te-O-Tane was the son of Ta Maaha and his second wife Te Arawhiti. Through both parents, he was a descendant of Tama-te-rangi, the founding ancestor of his hapū and thence from Pawa and Kiwa who captained the Horouta waka and Tamatea Arikinui, who captained the Takitimu. [1]
Māui, the son of Taranga, was born prematurely and thrown into the sea wrapped in a tress of his mother's topknot; he is found by his ancestor Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, who nurses him to health. After introducing himself to his mother and brothers and living with them, he came to wonder where Taranga went to during the day.
Hine-rangi, who married her cousin Tama-te-rangi. [18] Potirohia; By Rongomaiwahine: [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 Ngāti Kahungunu. [19] [20]
Rangiteaorere was born at Te Teko on the Rangitaiki River in the Bay of Plenty. His father was Rangiwhakaekeau of Ngāti Rangitihi, a direct descendant of Tama-te-kapua, the captain of the Arawa. [2] His mother was Uenukurauiri, a sister of Tūhoe Pōtiki, [3] whom Rangiwhakaekeau seduced while her husband was away.
Tamamutu was the oldest son of Te Rangi-ita and Waitapu. [1] Through his father, Te Rangi-ita, he was a descendant of Tūwharetoa i te Aupōuri. [2] His mother was the daughter of Te Ata-inutai of Ngāti Raukawa, through whom he was a descendant of Hoturoa, captain of the Tainui canoe. [3]