Tu-poho

Family: the Nga-puhi · Role: chief · First appears: Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1

In Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1, Tu-poho, a chief of Nga-puhi, led an attack by night on Tihi-o-te-Rangi’s people. Many were killed, and many were offered to the God of War. Te-marama is named as Tu-poho’s daughter.

In Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2, Tihi-o-te-Rangi left his destroyed pa and summoned the mountain tribes to take revenge on Tu-poho. Tu-poho had killed all of Rongo-mai’s relatives; then Tihi-o-te-Rangi killed Rongo-mai and his family, relatives, friends, and others connected with the feasting. From that time, Tihi-o-te-Rangi gathered warriors against Tu-poho, and war was waged between the two chiefs.

Relationship record

Life events

• Tu-poho led the Nga-puhi in an attack that killed many of Tihi-o-te-Rangi’s people.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1)
  • With: Tihi-o-te-Rangi
  • “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.”
• Tihi-o-te-Rangi left the tribe, returned to his destroyed pa, and summoned the mountain tribes to take revenge on Tu-poho.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2)
  • With: Tihi-o-te-Rangi
  • “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.”
• Tu-poho had killed all of Rongo-mai’s relatives.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2)
  • With: Rongo-mai
  • “Ah, all his relatives were killed by Tu-poho!”
• Tihi-o-te-Rangi killed Rongo-mai and his kin, then began a war against Tu-poho.(Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2)
  • With: Tihi-o-te-Rangi Rongo-mai
  • “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 XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 1

• child: Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) “One evening he met Te-marama, the daughter of Tu-poho, and she looked at him disdainfully and spoke:”
• enemies with Tihi-o-te-Rangi “At last a message came to him. Two women of his tribe came to him; they came naked and torn, the white flower of the clematis in their hair. By night they came and brought the head of their husband; they lit a fire before Tihi’s house, and commenced their frightful tale of woe.”

Chapter XV · Tihi-o-te-Rangi · Part 2

• enemies with Tihi-o-te-Rangi “There he sent messengers to all the tribes in the mountains calling them to revenge themselves upon Tu-poho.”
• child: Te-marama (daughter of Tu-poho) “she related the story of her long wandering, and told that she was Te-marama, the daughter of Tu-poho--ah, my friend!”
• enemies with Rongo-mai “The face of Rongo-mai grew black! Ah, all his relatives were killed by Tu-poho!”

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