Tutanekai

Role: Rangatira · First appears: Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa

In Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa, Tutanekai led a war party against his enemies, won the battle, and took many slaves. He played music on Mokoia with his friend Tiki; when he was away from Hinemoa, he sent Tiki to tell her of his sorrow and ask her to come to him. Hinemoa promised to come by canoe on a dark night, guided by Tutanekai’s music.

At Wai-ki-miha, Tutanekai found Hinemoa in a cave, dropped his weapon, and called her name.

Relationship record

Life events

• Tutanekai led a war party against his enemies, won the battle, and took many slaves.(Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa)
  • “So he collected his war-friends and went away like a dark cloud to the tribe of his enemies, challenging them to battle; and great was the fighting, and many were slain, but Tutanekai was victorious, so that he took many slaves and made great offerings to the God of War.”
• Tutanekai sent Tiki to tell Hinemoa of his sorrow and ask her to come to him.(Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa)
  • With: Tiki (friend of Tutanekai) Hinemoa
  • “So he sent Tiki, his friend, to Hinemoa, to tell her of his great sorrow in being away from her, and to ask her to come to him and to his heart, that it might lose its fright and be full of gladness.”
• Hinemoa promised to come to Tutanekai by canoe when his music called her.(Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa)
  • With: Hinemoa
  • “and she promised to come to Tutanekai in a canoe, late on a black night, when he would play his sweetest music to call for her and to guide her in the darkness.”
• Tutanekai discovered Hinemoa in the cave, dropped his weapon, and called her name.(Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa · 📍 Wai-ki-miha)
  • With: Hinemoa
  • “Ha! the powerful weapon fell to the ground like a useless stick; forgotten was the God of War; forgotten the lizards: sorrow and fear and full of love sounds the voice out of the cave: ‘Hinemoa!’”

Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa

• friends with Tiki (friend of Tutanekai) “Oh, Hinemoa was full of gladness and was smiling at her image for joy, for over the sea sweetly sounds the music of the flute and the horn played by Tutanekai and his friend Tiki, far off in the middle of the lake on the island of Mokoia, Tutanekai’s home.”
• courtship with Hinemoa “Listen then, while we wander along the border of the sea to the love that has been, the love of both, the two, of Hinemoa and Tutanekai.”

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