Muri-Rangi-whenua

First appears: Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3

Life events

• Muri-Rangi-whenua’s life departed, leaving his jawbone as his sacred resting-place.(Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3)
  • With: Maui
  • “At last the spirit of his life took his abode in the jawbone, and, departing from there to be swallowed by Hine-nui-te-po, he left the jawbone--as his last resting-place, tapu (sacred)--behind him.”
• Maui took Muri-Rangi-whenua’s sacred jawbone and made it into a fish-hook.(Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3)
  • With: Maui
  • “Look how he forms the jawbone of Muri-Rangi-whenua into a beautiful fish-hook; how he adorns it with carvings, and how its eyes of pawa-shell, flash fire into the world!”

Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3

• younger kin: Maui “One day he asked the people who brought food every day to Muri-Rangi-whenua, his grandfather, and said: ‘Give me the food that I may take it to Muri-Rangi-whenua, for is he not a sacred man?’”

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