the old friend (Introduction)

Role: chief priest · First appears: Introduction

Life events

• The old friend gave the guest a song from ancient times.(Introduction)
  • With: the guest
  • “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 guest (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.”
• recipient: the guest (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.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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