Te-puha-o-te Rangi

Role: Tohunga and Rangatira · First appears: Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1

Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1

• younger kin: Takakopiri “It was given to him by his grandfather, the Tohunga, Te-puha-o-te Rangi, whose mana was so great that people, saluting him, rubbed noses only against his knee--he was a great Rangatira.”
• elder kin: Maui “Long and marked with many teeth was the waka-paparanga-rakau, the board, recording the ancestors of Te-puha-o-te Rangi, leading back from ancestor to ancestor to Maui, who came from Hawaiki and who is the father of this land, which is called Te-ika-a-maui, or Maui’s fish; and leading still further, up to the gods.”

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