Ngawai
Also known as: Hine-aroha · Role: a chieftainess, Rauriki's granddaughter · First appears: Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
In Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind, Ngawai, granddaughter of Rauriki, takes embers to the whare-puni and puts them at the feet of Tiki to warm and light the house. In Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa, she wanders beside the waves, telling herself in Maori of the sorrows of Hinemoa, her ancestress; there she calls the guest “my good friend.” In Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1, Tama-te-Kapua is identified as her ancestor, who came from Hawaiki.
Relationship record
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
- elder kin: Rauriki “Ngawai, Rauriki’s granddaughter now takes the embers to the whare-puni, and puts them to the feet of Tiki, to warm and light the house,”
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa
- elder kin: Hinemoa “Her eyes full of tears, Ngawai wandered along the rolling waves, telling herself in low tones, in Maori, of all the sorrows of Hinemoa, her ancestress.”
- friends with the guest “See, how Rangi’s Eye of Day looks down, my good friend, filling the heart with longing.”
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1
- elder kin: Tama-te-Kapua “Carved is there Tama-te-Kapua, the great Chief--Tohunga, her ancestor, who came from Hawaiki.”
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants
- friends with the guest “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.