Hupene

Role: the old Tohunga · First appears: Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind

Life events

• Hupene sang how Maui and Irawaru once went out together to catch fish, and how Maui could not catch any, while Irawaru caught many.(Chapter XIII · Maui and Irawaru: A Tradition)
  • With: Maui Irawaru
  • “He sings how Maui and Irawaru once went together out to catch fish, and how Maui could not catch any, and Irawaru caught many.”

Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind

• elder kin: Tiki “Hupene, the old Tohunga, squats muttering on the floor beside his carved ancestor Tiki.”
• recipient: the guest (Hupene welcomes the guest.) “‘Haere-mai, e te manuhire, Haere-mai’ (‘Welcome, stranger, welcome’), so speaks the old Tohunga;”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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