Te Tohunga — Chronicle
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Undated
Introduction
the old friend (Introduction) 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.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
When Rangi-nui, the great Heaven, and Papa-tu-a-nuku, the far-stretching earth, were separated from each other
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · 📍 Papa-tu-a-nuku
then, my listener, the light shone over Papa-tu-a-nuku, the mother of Tiki, and he was the first man.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · 📍 [[Hawaiki]] · At last
At last he came to the river at Hawaiki known by the name of Wai-matu-hirangi, and from the depth of his desire he cried aloud: ‘Oh, daughter of Hawaiki, child of the murmuring water, tell me how I may become the father of mankind. Tell me where may I obtain the power and from whom?’
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · 📍 [[Hawaiki]] · at last
First he journeyed to the gods of Te Po, the Lower World, and then he made his toilsome way through the ten heavens, searching for the sacred incantations and the Karakias, the object of his mighty quest, and at last, high, high in the uppermost heaven, he found them--ah, my listener!
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · 📍 [[Hawaiki]]
And so, with the help of the Shimmering Heat and the Echo, the power of multiplying, he gave life to the first woman. Marikoriko, or Twilight, was the first woman!
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
she takes her descent from the Shimmering Heat and from the Echo, and she became the first wife of Tiki, our father.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
Many children were born to Tiki and Marikoriko his wife.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
Tiki Marikoriko Hine-kau-ata-ata
Their daughter was Hine-kau-ata-ata, the Floating Shadow.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind
the Power of Speech the Power of Growth
Among the many children of Tiki and Marikoriko were the sons the Power of Speech and the Power of Growth, who took their sisters to wife
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · 📍 [[Hawaiki]] · at last
He had many enemies, and at last they killed him, and devoured him; but his spirit flew up to Rangi, there to become the fiery and flashing star.
Chapter I · Tiki--The Ancestor of Mankind · again
Hine-nui-te-po has swallowed the world again
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
Rangi Hine-nui-te-po Ha-nui-o-rangi
Rangi took Hine-nui-te-po for his wife, and their son was Ha-nui-o-rangi, the Great Breath of Heaven.
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
And again Ha-nui-o-rangi commenced his great movement, and Te-ata-tuhi sprang forth, the First Glimmer of Light.
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
Te-ata-tuhi was a woman, and Rangi took her to wife. Her daughter was Te marama, the Moon
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
He found the woman Te wera-wera, the heat, and his heart went out to her, so that he took her to wife, and Te-Ra was born, Te-Ra, the Sun!
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
Ah, she was of great beauty, and Rangi made her his wife that together they might create Hawaiki, and their first son was Rehua.
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
The next son of Rangi and Papa--ha, listen my wanderer--was Tiki, our Father, who created Marikoriko, his wife, and became the father of man!
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
“O, woman, Papa, nevermore will I be parted from you; together we will be the world; the parents, Rangi and Papa!”
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
Tangaroa Papa-tu-a-nuku Tinirau
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
Chapter II · The Creation of Hawaiki
He lifts the Heaven! Higher!---- Higher--! Ha, the heaven is high! Ah, Heaven and earth are separated--! Hawaiki is born!
Chapter III · The Poi-dance · once
Hine-nui-te-po, the goddess, once devoured Maui, as the Darkness nightly devours the Sun, and now keeps enclosed the world.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars
Here he rested for seven days and seven nights, and, when his strength was growing again, he commenced his work, and covered the heaven with the beautiful red colour. But behold, when he had finished this great work and descended again to earth, he let his eyes wander over the red sky, which was stretching now over Papa, and he found that this adornment was not worthy of his great father, and full of sorrow he took it away again leaving some of it only at Mahiku-rangi, the End of Heaven.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · Seven days and seven nights
Seven days and seven nights he was watching the dying away and bursting forth again of Rangi’s beauty, and then out of his sorrow he sang these words up to his father: “Oh, Rangi, still you are cold and dark and lonely from the first night, to the second night, to the tenth night, when your daughter Te-marama ascends again out of the Source of Living Water, so that you look down upon Papa silent and sorrowful.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 [[Te-Po]]
Here he found Hine-a-te-ao, the Daughter of the Light; she is the guardian of the Gates of the Lower World, and, tired from his long journey, he slept in her house.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 [[Te-Po]] · In the darkness of night
Tane Hine-a-te-ao Lonely South Shore of Heaven
In the darkness of night he beheld two beautiful stars shining forth; they were the children of Ira, and their names were Lonely South, and Shore of Heaven, the morning star, and his heart was glad over their beauty, so that his eyes could not sleep, and could not but rest upon them all the night.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · In the morning
Tane Hine-a-te-ao
In the morning he called Hine-a-te-ao, and showed her the two beautiful stars shimmering forth out of the darkness of the Po, and asked for them, for nothing could be more beautiful he thought as an adornment for his Father Rangi. Hine-a-te-ao answered: “Go, son, and take the stars!”
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 [[Mahiku-rangi]]
Tane Hine-a-te-ao
And Hine-a-te-ao answered: “O, son, far is the way indeed! Go to the House of Tupu-renga-o-te-Po, the Growing Night: he is the guardian over the two stars, and his house is standing at Mahiku-rangi.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 [[Mahiku-rangi]] · After Tane had rested
When at last he had found Tupu, he pictured the sorrows and the nakedness of his father, and asked him to give the beautiful stars to Rangi, and Tupu answered: “Oh, Tane, son of Rangi and Papa, the stars which you behold shimmering yonder are the sacred holders of the world; they are Hira-utu, Fish by the Land, Hira-tai, Fish of the Sea; Parinuku, Cliff by the Earth, and Pari-rangi, Cliff of the Heavens. Yes, it is my wish that you may adorn Rangi with yonder stars.”
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars
And he gave him the Four Sacred Holders of the World, the stars of the four points of the compass, and then he gave him the five stars, Ao-tahi, Puaka and Tuku-rua, Tama-re-reti and Te-waka-a-tama-rereti.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 Rangi · whilst still the Sun was standing high in the heavens
Many more stars brought Tupu, and Tane distributed them over Rangi from the summit of the mountains whilst still the Sun was standing high in the heavens.
Chapter IV · The Creation of the Stars · 📍 Papa-tu-a-nuku · at last
Resting upon Papa, he watched the beautiful sacred red appear again at Mahiku-rangi, and, when with the departing sun darkness again filled the world, his wandering eyes perceived how star upon star commenced to live and shine forth, till at last Rangi in wonderful beauty was stretching over Papa, and his heart was full of joy and happiness, and he sang: “O, father Rangi, your beauty is indescribable; in truth you are now the ariki of Papa, and all her children will love you!”
Chapter V · The Chant of Rangi-nui · 📍 [[the third heaven]] · once
Rehua once, in terrible wrath, stamped upon the bottom of this heaven so that it broke, and all the waters rushed down upon the earth as a Deluge.
Chapter V · The Chant of Rangi-nui · 📍 [[the heavens of Maru]]
many were his victories over Maru, the God of War, for many were the spirits of the slain heroes who were wandering up to the heavens of Maru, there to become stars, and who changed their mind and followed the call of the god Rehua, for Rehua is the God of Food.
Chapter V · The Chant of Rangi-nui · once
Maui once entered Hine-nui-te-po, trying to penetrate her, so that she might be killed and man may live for ever; but that was the death of Maui.
Chapter VI · Tane--The Creation of Nature
Thereupon he went into the Great Distance, and became the father of the lakes, the Water of the Many Faces; and many of these glittering faces he distributed over Papa.
Chapter VI · Tane--The Creation of Nature
But again Tane wandered into the Great Distance, till he found the Gentle Noise of Air; and taking her to wife, he founded the family of the Multitude of Trees.
Chapter VI · Tane--The Creation of Nature
Tane Wanderer in the Sky Wanderer in the Brook
Whilst the Multitude of Trees were growing up into maturity, Tane rested not till he found the two sisters, the Wanderer in the Sky, and the Wanderer in the Brook, and they gave him his children, the birds.
Chapter VI · Tane--The Creation of Nature
Tane Totara-tree Manuka Rimu Kauri-tree Kahiku
Ah, my good friend, when Tane saw his children now, then came joy to his heart, and all over Papa he planted his children, and they grew, and took the earth to their mother.
Chapter VI · Tane--The Creation of Nature
Oh, beautifully now was Papa dressed in her vast garment, and greater still grew the love of Rangi, and he sent the rays of his Eye of Day down upon her, and created the flowers.
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
Maui-roto, living in the Lower World, created the Earth, which has, like the Sun, a body of granite;
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
Maui-waho then nourishes her with his blood, which he streams down upon her as the red Evening-glow.
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
She has commanded her slaves that, when a man came, crawling with his head forward, they should let him go into her pataka and not kill him, for he would be an atua and of great tapu; but should they perceive a man standing upright in his canoe, they should take him and put him to death.
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
Head foremost he came, and, therefore, the slaves, seeing that he was an atua, let him into the world unmolested.
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
Out of Maui-potiki, the Morning Sun, has grown Maui-mua, the Evening Sun, and he now is captured by the slaves and pressed to death by Hine-nui-te-po.
Chapter VII · The Fight of Night and Day
he returns to the world and puts fire to Hine-nui-te-po.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1 · I was young then
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.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 1 · I was young then
Takakopiri the tohunga (Chapter VIII)
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.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2
his incantations were overcome by the Mother of All, and she swallowed him, as she swallows all--Maui-i-tiki-tiki-a-taranga.”
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2
Before his time Maui was born, and Taranga, his mother, who gave birth to him on the border of the sea, knew that he could not live; therefore she cut her hair, and, wrapping it around him, she threw him into the surf of the sea--ah.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2
Tangaroa, the god of the oceans! His are the waves, and they rolled and rocked the child to sleep, and they fashioned him and gave him strength; and they took possession of him and gave him the power of the sea and the wisdom of the sea--their great incantations which unite heaven and earth; and they gave him the terrible witchcraft of the sea.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2
Tama-nui-ki-te Rangi became his father, and he lived with him till he grew into manhood.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2 · At last
At last a great longing for his parents and his brothers grew in his heart, and he set out to seek them, for his heart was longing for them.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 2
“If you are Taranga, my mother, then know, that I am Maui-potiki, your youngest son.” Ha! great was the wisdom given him by Tangaroa, and great was his beauty and strength, fashioned by the storms of the sea, so that, when he took the form of man again, his mother saw his great beauty and she believed in him, and knew that he was her son;
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3
It is true! He is the youngest son to whom I gave birth, and cast his body into the sea because his life was not ripe. He is here again; he is alive; it is true, it is true, it is true! He is my son; he is Maui-i-tiki-tiki-a-taranga!
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3 · The next night
The next night, when Taranga had come again to sleep with her sons, he waited till all were asleep, and then he closed every hole and rent through which light could come into the house, and put away Taranga’s feather-garment and belt, that she might not be able to go away again.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3
The people now sprang forward to kill the pigeon, but Maui quickly changed into a man again, so that they were struck with fear, and looked frightened into his staring red eyes: they were as red as if they were painted with kokowai.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3
Taranga, seeing her son, chanted the great Song of Welcome of the people of Hawaiki; and then, staring far into the distance, she sang the incantations to the gods who record the past, and with their help she narrated to the people all that had taken place since Maui’s birth, and the people wondered, and believed that Maui was Taranga’s son--Maui-i-tiki-tiki-a-taranga.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3 · from that time
And from that time, Maui lived with his people for time, and time, and time.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3 · At last
At last the spirit of his life took his abode in the jawbone, and, departing from there to be swallowed by Hine-nui-te-po, he left the jawbone--as his last resting-place, tapu (sacred)--behind him.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 3
Look how he forms the jawbone of Muri-Rangi-whenua into a beautiful fish-hook; how he adorns it with carvings, and how its eyes of pawa-shell, flash fire into the world!
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4 · next morning
they did not like him in the canoe, and therefore they left so early next morning that Maui had to stay behind.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4
When Maui awoke and found his brothers gone, he laughed, and changed himself into the little bird, Ti-waka-waka, and flew out upon the sea.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4
Then, throwing off all his feathers one by one, he took the form of man again, and spoke: “Ha, my brothers, now you shall see how Maui catches his large fish, and you shall not know its name!
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4
But now, in great rage, Maui tore half his hair out, and, soaking it with his blood, he baited his hook with it. Then he threw his line far, far out into the sea
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4 · 📍 [[Hiku rangi]]
Maui’s hook caught the house of the old Tonga-nui on the top of Tongariro, and pulled all this beautiful land out of the sea, Te-ika-a-Maui.
Chapter VIII · Maui--The Creation of New Zealand · Part 4 · 📍 [[Hiku rangi]]
The canoe was now lying on the mountains at Hiku rangi, and Maui’s brothers took their weapons and sprang forth, and wounded and killed the fish, and, ah, my friend, from that time are the hills and the valleys and the mountains
Chapter IX · Mahuika · as a child
Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, Great Son of Heaven, lifts him as a child, Maui-potiki, out of the ocean upon which he is swimming, and rears him into manhood.
Chapter IX · Mahuika · 📍 [[the ocean]] · at last
Out of this fire--the second Sunrise--emerges the flying Maui, flying as sun-eagle over the heavens, and hurling himself at last into the ocean.
Chapter X · Maui and Mahuika · 📍 [[Hawaiki]]
Maui extinguished all fires in Hawaiki, and no fire was burning anywhere, and all was cold and dark.
Chapter X · Maui and Mahuika
but, when he again came back and asked for the last finger, then Mahuika knew that he wished to deceive her and kill her, and a frightful anger took hold upon her! Ha, she took her last child, her last finger, and threw it upon the world, and the world filled with fire--ha!
Chapter X · Maui and Mahuika
he sang great incantations to Tawhiri-matea and the gods, and they sent clouds of rain. The clouds wandered forth from the end of heaven and burst into rain, and long rain fell upon the fire, and heavy rain, and lasting rain.
Chapter X · Maui and Mahuika · 📍 [[Kai-Komaki tree]] · At last
At last, knowing that she must die, she took her last child, her last finger, and hid it in the Kai-Komaki tree--and then, my listener, the rain has slain the mother of the fire--ah!
Chapter X · Maui and Mahuika · 📍 [[Tawhiti-nui]]
Yes, Maui taught his brothers the art of making ropes, and from him descended his wisdom to my people.
Chapter XI · The Death of Maui
Wrath overcame her, and quickly she snapped her jaws together, biting through Maui and killing him with her sharp teeth of obsidian. Then she took him down into the everlasting darkness.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa
So he collected his war-friends and went away like a dark cloud to the tribe of his enemies, challenging them to battle; and great was the fighting, and many were slain, but Tutanekai was victorious, so that he took many slaves and made great offerings to the God of War.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa
Tutanekai Tiki (friend of Tutanekai) Hinemoa
So he sent Tiki, his friend, to Hinemoa, to tell her of his great sorrow in being away from her, and to ask her to come to him and to his heart, that it might lose its fright and be full of gladness.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa · 📍 [[the lake]]
Amukaria, a great Ariki, was only willing to give Hinemoa as wife to a Rangatira of a very high mana, for her beauty was like the Morning Sun over the lake, and he, knowing the power and danger of such beauty, gave order that all the canoes should be taken off the lake.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa · 📍 [[Wai-rere-wai]] · One evening
She went to the store-house, and took six dry and empty gourds, and tied them together with flax for floats, and she went to the edge of the water, called Wai-rere-wai, threw off her mat of kiwi feathers, and cast herself to swim the long, long way with the help of the floating gourds.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa · 📍 [[Mokoia]]
and at last, with all her strength gone, her hands reach the rocks of Mokoia, where the hot spring is in the cave Wai-ki-miha. In this cave she took shelter, for she was cold, and trembling like a dead leaf.
Chapter XII · Te Aroha o Hinemoa: The Love of Hinemoa · 📍 [[Wai-ki-miha]]
Again did Tutanekai send the slave, and again spoke Hinemoa: ‘Give me Tutanekai’s calabash’--and again the frightened slave reached it to her into the darkness, and she drank and broke it again.
Chapter XIII · Maui and Irawaru: A Tradition
She broke out in a great lament, and at last she cast herself into the sea.
Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2
Tawhaiatu the fairy chief (Chapter XIV)
one morning when Ruarangi returned to his house in the early dawn, after having been out all night eel-fishing, he found that his wife had disappeared.
Chapter XIV · The Patu-paiarehe: The Fairy People of the Mountains · Part 2 · 📍 [[Pirongia]] · at night
Ruarangi Tawhaiatu the fairy chief (Chapter XIV)
He raised his voice in a song of lamentation, for he loved Tawhaiatu, but he could not prevail against the sacred kokowai and the powerful spells of Ruarangi. And then the fairy returned sorrowing to his dwelling on lofty Pirongia.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1 · in the darkness of night
they came in the darkness of night, and their hearts were full of rage. Ah, a very great many were the slain of my people, and many were offered to the God of War by Tu-poho.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1
Matike Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) Tuwhare
Matike, the sister of Tihi-o-te-Rangi, was given to Te-marama, Tuwhare’s daughter, as her slave
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1
He killed the little bird Ma-tata, and offered his blood to the War God Maru, that the war-tapu might come over him
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1 · then
and then he went his way to find Tu-poho.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1 · then
and then he went and followed his enemies to free his sister.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1
Matike Takerangi
Matike is a slave no longer--for her beauty she is taken by the chief Takerangi to share his resting-place and his mana.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1
When Tihi-o-te-Rangi shall carry the powerful war-weapon of his tribe before his wrathful warriors into the land of Tu-poho, to kill and revenge my people, to eat and destroy the Nga-puhi
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · In the blackness of night
In the blackness of night he left the tribe, and went back to his destroyed pa again. There he sent messengers to all the tribes in the mountains calling them to revenge themselves upon Tu-poho.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2
and he built high palisades around his pa, the strongest and highest in all the land
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 [[Nga-puhi]]
Tihi-o-te-Rangi Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho)
One morning, while the sun was rising out of the sea, she could bear it no longer: she called her slave to put some food into a basket, and bade her follow her. Ah, my friend, that was the beginning of Te-marama’s great wandering over the pathless land, through the dark forests, and along the endless shores.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 [[Kau-ara-paua]] · At last
Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) Tihi-o-te-Rangi
At last she came to the pa Kau-ara-paua, and there she asked for Tihi-o-te-Rangi.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 [[the whare of Rongo-mai]] · one evening
Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) Rongo-mai
Many questions she asked as to where she might find Tihi-o-te-Rangi, and one evening, while resting in the whare of Rongo-mai, she related the story of her long wandering, and told that she was Te-marama, the daughter of Tu-poho
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · 📍 [[the whare of Rongo-mai]]
Rongo-mai Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho)
His rage was terrible, and, suddenly jumping forward, he killed Te-marama with one powerful blow of his weapon!
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2
the slave (Chapter XV) Tihi-o-te-Rangi
The slave escaped, and her tears were floods, and frightful her cries, and terrible her words of insult when she met Tihi: ‘O, Tihi, look at Te-marama, who was truly your slave, look upon her, look; look upon her bones in the mouths of your people of dogs
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2
Tihi-o-te-Rangi the slave (Chapter XV)
with one blow of his mere he killed the slave that he might not hear more.
Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2 · from that time
Tihi-o-te-Rangi Rongo-mai Tu-poho
He killed Rongo-mai and all his family and his relatives and friends and all who took part in the feasting and all who were related to them; and he invited all his tribes to feast upon the slain, to shout insult and spite over the dead and their bones far into the world, and to curse their bones, to break them, and scatter them all over the world!-- Ah, ah, my friend--but Tihi! Ah, from that time he sat alone at the fire in his whare-puni, brooding and sorrowing and crying; and happiness never again entered his heart--Tihi-o-te-Rangi! But then, my friend, he collected his warriors against the enemy Tu-poho, and from that time the frightful war was waged between the two insulted chiefs of which the people of both tribes know numberless doleful songs.”
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants · Suddenly
Suddenly a crashing thunder shook the earth, and bursting forth from the mouth of Ruapehu a fiery mass of molten stones and black hate and fury fell upon Taranaki, covering him with a terrible coat of fire, whilst the flying winds howled and the melted snow-waters fled thundering down into the valleys.
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants
He now, tearing the air with his roaring cries of pain and thundering howling of rage, threw a tremendous mass of stones at his enemy, and broke the highest cone, the loftiest peak of Ruapehu, so that his looks were not so majestic, and his reach not so far into the skies.
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants · Then
Then Ruapehu filled himself with the boiling water, and, throwing it out of his mouth down upon Taranaki, it filled all the crevices, and it lifted him, for he himself had loosened his bonds with the earth; and now, darkening day into night, he sent the molten mass of his swallowed cone against his enemy, so that he was compelled to retreat: blinded by steam, burned in his inside by the boiling water, and covered with the molten mass of the cone of Ruapehu he himself had broken.
Chapter XVI · The Battle of the Giants · 📍 [[the sea]]
He groaned, and rose, and tumbled, and shook himself; and he felt for a way to the sea to cool his burning pain; howling in unbearable pain he had to run, in order to get out of reach of Ruapehu, deeply hollowing his path through the lands.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Tahiti]] · one day long ago
And as the canoe-paddles took the water and she gathered way, a voice of Hou’ was heard crying his poroporoaki, his farewell to the crew.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Arawa]]
He carried him off across the ocean to be the Arawa’s priest
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · While crossing the ocean in search of the new land Ao-tea-roa
Tama-te-Kapua clandestinely gained the affections of the lady Kearoa, the wife of Ngatoro-i-Rangi, who had accompanied her husband.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Waha-o-te-Parata]] · When Ngatoro’ discovered this
So to this end he directed the bow of the Arawa straight towards the Waha-o-te-Parata, the Mouth of the Sea-monster, a terrible whirlpool, or maelstrom, in mid-ocean, which had sucked down many a vessel to destruction.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Waha-o-Parata]]
And the mana tapu, the supernatural influence of that awa-moana, and of the Tohunga, was such that the terrific lashing of the sea was calmed, the gaping whirlpool closed again; the great billows ceased to tumble, the heavens grew light, and the canoe sailed on once more in safety over the long heaving swell of the Ocean of Kiwa.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Whanga-paraoa]] · It was midsummer
The first place where they landed was Whanga-paraoa (Whale Harbour), so called because they found a great sperm-whale stranded there.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Motiti]]
Ngatoro-i-Rangi the high-priest and his wife took up their abode on the island of Motiti.
Chapter XVII · The Coming of the Maori · 📍 [[Moehau]] · at last
Here Tama’ died, and here his sons buried him, on the forested ridge of Moehau.
Chapter XVIII · Tradition--Tama-te-Kapua · During the journey
During the journey Ngatoro climbs up to the Height of the Midday, tying the earth to him by his sun-rays; but Tama-te-Kapua unties the sun-rays which bind the earth to the Sun--the cloud flies over the earth--and takes her to his wife.
Chapter XVIII · Tradition--Tama-te-Kapua · now
Wrathful over the insult Tama-te-Kapua had done to him, Ngatoro now steers the canoe into the western precipice: the Sun is setting, and night swallows the canoe; and in vain does Tama-te-Kapua call for help from Ngatoro: everything is swallowed in darkness.
Chapter XVIII · Tradition--Tama-te-Kapua · at last
But at last Ngatoro takes pity and saves the canoe: the Sun ascends again in the East, and steers the canoe against the West, to Ao-tea-roa.
Chapter XVIII · Tradition--Tama-te-Kapua · 📍 Tongariro · At last
At last he ascends Tongariro, but his companions, whom he had left behind, saw that he became paler and paler as he reached the summit of Tongariro: the sun was frozen in the ice-cold atmosphere of the sacred mountain.
Chapter XVIII · Tradition--Tama-te-Kapua · 📍 Tongariro · At last
At last, nearly dead, Ngatoro offers incantations to the gods at Hawaiki, and they send the fire to him. It came through the paths of the Lower World and it burst through the earth on many places: at Roto-ehu, Roto-rua, Tarawera, and at many more places; but at last it ascended Tongariro, and created a volcano, and the fire and heat of the volcano saved Ngatoro-i-Rangi from a frightful death.
Chapter XIX · A Tangi
the dead chief
The dead chief was a Rangatira-Tohunga
Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 Tongariro
as the base of the mountain, in a frightful landslip, has swallowed his life!
Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 [[Tongariro-tapu]]
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.
Chapter XX · Ngawai · 📍 [[Tongariro-tapu]]
they let fall their burden upon a rock; the hearts of the bravest are trembling.