the guest
Role: the author, to whom the legends are told · First appears: Introduction
In the Introduction, the old friend gave the guest a song from ancient times, saying, “This song out of ancient time I give you, for your eyes can look back into the past; but my eyes are dim like my wisdom.” The guest describes the Maori friends’ friendship as easing loneliness, and the old friend later laid a parting present at their feet.
In Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind, Hupene welcomed the guest as a stranger. In Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki, Matapo calls the guest his friend and listener; in Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa, Ngawai addresses the guest as her good friend.
Relationship record
Life events
- The old friend gave the guest a song from ancient times.(Introduction)
- With: the old friend (Introduction)
- “This song out of ancient time I give you, for your eyes can look back into the past; but my eyes are dim like my wisdom.”
Introduction
- friends with the old friend (Introduction) (The guest describes the friendship he found with the old friend.) “In the whare-puni of my friends, the Maoris, I found these atuas, and more, a friendship which made the loneliness fly away like a dark feather before the morning wind.”
- benefactor: the old friend (Introduction) (The old friend gives the guest a parting present.) “With Sorrow in his face, he sat down, quietly laying a parting present at our feet.”
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
- benefactor: Hupene (Hupene welcomes the guest.) “‘Haere-mai, e te manuhire, Haere-mai’ (‘Welcome, stranger, welcome’), so speaks the old Tohunga;”
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
- friends with Matapo “As you have opened your ears to the song of the old man, who is your friend, my listener, so open now your eyes, that they may show you how night presses upon earth, and darkness has swallowed all, for, know, such was the night and the darkness which reigned between heaven and earth, everlasting, from the first time to the hundredth time, to the thousandth time--Ah, know, my friend, when the world was still dwelling in Te-po-nui then was it Tangaroa, the God of the Oceans, who had taken Papa-tu-a-nuku to wife, and their sons were Tinirau, The Many Hundreds, who founded the Family of the waves which encircle the earth.”
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa
- friends with Ngawai “See, how Rangi’s Eye of Day looks down, my good friend, filling the heart with longing.”
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants
- friends with Ngawai “Ah, too young is still the morning, my good friend, for the wanderings of man, rest and listen----”
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Extracted from the original text of Te Tohunga. Made with Rho MD.