the tohunga (Chapter VIII)

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

Life events

The tohunga learned the words of the Christian god from a white priest.(Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1)
- “I was young then, and Takakopiri, who was then so old that he could remember Te Repo-repo, the large war-canoe, growing still as a tree in the forest, had given to me the wisdom of the ancient.”
Takakopiri gave the tohunga the wisdom of the ancient.(Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1)
- With: Takakopiri
- “I was young then, and Takakopiri, who was then so old that he could remember Te Repo-repo, the large war-canoe, growing still as a tree in the forest, had given to me the wisdom of the ancient.”

mentor: the white priest (Chapter VIII) “Long is it, friend, since a man of your colour came to me, a great Tohunga-pakeha (white priest), and he took great pains to teach me the words of his Truth.”
mentor: Takakopiri “I was young then, and Takakopiri, who was then so old that he could remember Te Repo-repo, the large war-canoe, growing still as a tree in the forest, had given to me the wisdom of the ancient.”

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