Te Heu-heu
Family: the Ngati-tu-wharetoa · Role: Rangatira · First appears: Chapter XX · Ngawai
Life events
- Te Heu-heu’s life was swallowed by a frightful landslip.(Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 Tongariro)
- “as the base of the mountain, in a frightful landslip, has swallowed his life!”
- Iwikau led a procession carrying Te Heu-heu’s bones toward the crater for burial.(Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 Tongariro-tapu)
- With: Iwikau
- “Iwikau, the brother of the dead Rangatira Te Heu-heu, and chief now over the tribe of the Ngati-tu-wharetoa, is the leader of a large procession of sorrowing, weeping people of the tribe.”
- The bearers dropped Te Heu-heu’s remains, and the people fled, leaving the bones on a rock.(Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 Tongariro-tapu)
- With: Iwikau
- “they let fall their burden upon a rock; the hearts of the bravest are trembling.”
Chapter XX · Ngawai
- child: Rangi-o-mohio “Rangi-o-mohio, a very old woman, the daughter of the famous Rangatira Te Heu-heu, is still relating:”
- siblings with Iwikau “Iwikau, the brother of the dead Rangatira Te Heu-heu, and chief now over the tribe of the Ngati-tu-wharetoa, is the leader of a large procession of sorrowing, weeping people of the tribe.”
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Extracted from the original text of Te Tohunga. Made with Rho MD.