Rongo-mai

First appears: Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2

In Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2, while resting at Rongo-mai’s whare, Te-marama told him that she was Tu-poho’s daughter and had been wandering in search of Tihi-o-te-Rangi. Rongo-mai’s relatives had been killed by Tu-poho; when he learned Te-marama’s identity, he killed her with one blow from his weapon.

From that time, Tihi-o-te-Rangi killed Rongo-mai and his family, relatives, friends, and others connected to them. He then gathered warriors against Tu-poho, and war was waged between the two chiefs.

Relationship record

Life events

• Te-marama told Rongo-mai that she was Tu-poho’s daughter.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 the whare of Rongo-mai)
  • With: Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho)
  • “Many questions she asked as to where she might find Tihi-o-te-Rangi, and one evening, while resting in the whare of Rongo-mai, she related the story of her long wandering, and told that she was Te-marama, the daughter of Tu-poho”
• Tu-poho had killed all of Rongo-mai’s relatives.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2)
  • With: Tu-poho
  • “Ah, all his relatives were killed by Tu-poho!”
• Rongo-mai killed Te-marama with a blow from his weapon.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 the whare of Rongo-mai)
  • With: Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho)
  • “His rage was terrible, and, suddenly jumping forward, he killed Te-marama with one powerful blow of his weapon!”
• Tihi-o-te-Rangi killed Rongo-mai and his kin, then began a war against Tu-poho.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2)
  • With: Tihi-o-te-Rangi Tu-poho
  • “He killed Rongo-mai and all his family and his relatives and friends and all who took part in the feasting and all who were related to them; and he invited all his tribes to feast upon the slain, to shout insult and spite over the dead and their bones far into the world, and to curse their bones, to break them, and scatter them all over the world!-- Ah, ah, my friend--but Tihi! Ah, from that time he sat alone at the fire in his whare-puni, brooding and sorrowing and crying; and happiness never again entered his heart--Tihi-o-te-Rangi! But then, my friend, he collected his warriors against the enemy Tu-poho, and from that time the frightful war was waged between the two insulted chiefs of which the people of both tribes know numberless doleful songs.”

Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2

• enemies with Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) “His rage was terrible, and, suddenly jumping forward, he killed Te-marama with one powerful blow of his weapon!”
• enemies with Tihi-o-te-Rangi “He killed Rongo-mai and all his family and his relatives and friends and all who took part in the feasting and all who were related to them;”
• enemies with Tu-poho “The face of Rongo-mai grew black! Ah, all his relatives were killed by Tu-poho!”

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Extracted from the original text of Te Tohunga. Made with Rho MD.