Page 42 - Puhipi

Te Aitanga a Makeatutara

took the jawbone and fashioned it into a fishhook.
Murirangawhenua raua ko tetahi tangata.

Na Tamaiti o te Papa:
+ 14 F i. Taranga [1222].

Tenth Generation

14. Taranga [1222].
Rapunga Kupu Akoako: (korero taken from "he hinatore ki te Ao Maori, a glimse into the Maori
world") Maui was discovered while his brothers, mother and relations were dancing in the Whare
Runanganui. He crept into the house and hid behind one of his brothers as his mother was counting
them. She was bewildered when she found that she kept counting an extra person. Maui finally told
her who he was but she denied that he was her child. Maui told her how she had wrapped him in the
topknot of her hair when he was born and cast him into the sea. He was found on shore by his great
tupuna Tamanuiketerangi who reared him and told him about this Whare Runanganui. Maui told her
that when he was in her womb he heard her say the names of his older brothers and proceeded to
recite them to her to prove that this was so. When his mother heard this she cried out, "you dear
little child you are indeed my last born the son of my old age, therefore I now tell you your name
shall be Maui-tikitki-a-Taranga".
Taranga raua ko Makeatutara [1221] [MRIN: 552].
Rapunga Kupu Akoako: (korero taken from "he hinatore ki te Ao Maori, a glimse into the Maori
world"et al) After Mäui had discovered his family, his mother asked him to sleep beside her
because he had been lost to her for so long and she wanted to express her aroha. Early every
morning, Taranga would wake and leave the house, returning at night. Mäui grew increasingly
suspicious, so one night he stole his mother's clothes and hid them. He covered every gap in the
house so that the light could not shine through. That night his mother slept until the sun had risen
high in the sky. At last she jumped up. She pulled on the things that prevented the light from
entering the house and hurried away. Mäui followed his mother into a beautiful open cave running
quite deep into the earth. Mäui recited a karakia and transformed himself into a kererü. He flew into
the cave and perched on the branch of a mänäpau tree. His mother and father were talking below the
tree, so he pecked at one of the berries, dropping it onto his father's forehead. The people there
picked up some stones and threw them at Mäui. Mäui avoided all the stones except for the stone his
father threw. Mäui deliberately let it hit him, causing him to fall. As he fell, Mäui changed back into
human form. Taranga asked him of his origins, "Where do you come from? From the
westward?" "No." "From the north-east?" "No." "From the south-east?" "No."
"From the south?" "No." "Was it the wind which blows upon me, that brought you
here?" "Yes." Taranga then exclaimed that this was her son, Mäui. The father then took Mäui
and performed the tohi rite. Later he realised that he had made a mistake whilst reciting the karakia.
He knew that his mistake would not be accepted kindly by the käwai tupuna and that they would
therefore avenge the wrong by taking away the immortality of Mäui.

Na Tamariki:
15 M i. Maui Mua [1104].
16 M ii. Maui Taha [1174].
17 M iii. Maui Pae [1175].
18 M iv. Maui Roto [1176].
+ 19 M v. MAUI POTIKI [1220].
20 F vi. Hine Kura [1177].