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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 ...
Tawhiwhi, who married Te Ahiwhakamauroa and died young. [19] [20] Hine-pua, who married Tama-konohi: Karakia-rau: Hikairo, ancestor of Ngāti Hikairo. Māhaki, ancestor of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki. [19] Ranginui, ancestor of Ngāti Ranginui. [7] In addition, he was the father of: Tamakopiri, ancestor of Ngāti Tama of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. [21]
Tama-i-uia's father Whakauika was the son of Taupara, the founding ancestor of Te Whānau a Taupara, and a direct descendant of Māhaki, the founding ancestor of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki. [1] His mother, Tonoa-Ki-Aua, was the daughter of Hine-te-Ariki, a descendant of Uri-Taniwha, supernatural creatures that lived in deep still areas of rivers. [2]
Whaitiri, a granddaughter of Māui, marries Kaitangata and has Hemā. Hemā marries Rawhita-i-te-rangi, and has Tāwhaki and his younger brother Karihi. Tāwhaki and Karihi set off to find their grandmother Whaitiri. They come to a village where a kawa (open ceremony) is being performed for Hine-te-kawa's house. They hide in the walls of the ...
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.
He followed her, chanting a karakia to turn himself into a rupe as he fell, before landing in a tunnel. Creeping along, he ventured into a vast underground land and spotted his mother under a pūriri tree with a man. He flew into the tree and dropped berries onto the man to make him look up but was stopped when the man got angry, demanding ...