The Ancient History of the Maori, His Mythology and Traditions. Awatea, Taranaki, Nga-Ti-Hau Nga-Ti-Rua-Nui [Vol. VIII, English]
Chapter 21
Chapter 21
I sleep, but all alone I sleep
Then come my own beloved, in spirit come
And give a sign that thou art here,
That I may know thy presence
So within my home, nor let
Me think, that only thy regrets
Are told for me to hear.
Thy speak of me,
With kindly words thy speak
Thy say that I have one beloved.
O do not let my fame
Be heard at O-kai-tangi
In the south, nor news for news
Exchange with tribe Te-kahu.
And what am I, or have
I now, or do possess,
That I am sought so much?
Twas I who made my body
What it is, and kept it fair in health,
Hence may see and love me, yes
Till all admire, and ask me theirs
Genealogy of Turi
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Nga-ti-hau)
Genealogical table of Turi
(Te whakapapa o turi)
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Nga-ti-hau)
Genealogy of Turi
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Nga-ti-rua-nui)
Turi had a wife called Rongorongo (news heard again and again) who had Turanga-i-mua (stand in the front) and Tane-roroa (tall males) who took Uhenga-pua-naki (the air of the bloom from the Naki (a certain plant)) and had Rua-nui (great pit) who had Whaea-tomokia (mother enter) the name of whose brother was Rahui-kura (red flock) who had Pui-nui (great clump) who took Tane-patua (man beaten) who had Tama-tu-tea (son stand fair) who took Arohanga (kindly) who had Tama-tea-noho-kawa (fair son sit on a heap) and Tama-kau-moana (son who swims in the sea) and Koropanga (food offered to the gods, but eaten by the Priests) who took Kura-pane (red plume on the head) who had Tama-porangi (foolish son) who took Taputu-haoa (screen to cover or protect or take in a large space) and had Tama-rua (second son) who took Tapi-rau (many patches) who had Tu-heke-ao (god of war who desolates the world) who took Hi-tama-tea (contempt for Tama-tea, fair son) who had Rangi-tautahi (one day only) who took Rere-kau (flee without cause) of Nga-motu (the district of the sugar loaf Islands at Tara-naki) and had Pore (start in sleep) who took Tu-ma-tiwha (god of war of the bald patch) who had Rangi (day) who took Te-awhea (the gatherer into heaps) who had Tuhinga (masked, tattooed or carved).
I will go back and give the descendants of some of these already given, and I will commence with Tama-kau-moana (son of the swimmer in the sea) who had Tama-tiriwa (son of the space, or connecting link) and Tama-puku (silent son). Tama-tiriwa took Hi-turi (contempt for the silent) and had Tama-tea-noho-ahu (fair son who sits on a heap) who had O-tea-nuku (fair distant land) who took Huri-waka (god medium turned) and had Piki-tawhaki (climb Tawhaki) and Wai-ngaro (lost water) who took Hau-moe-tu (sleep standing in the wind) and had Whakatutu (net put in rapids to catch any fish that may be swept down the fall) who took Te-kura (the plume) and Wheua (bone) and Wheua had Rawiri-wai-moko (water of the tattooing lizard).
We must now give the descendants of Rangi-hawe (day not like other days) who took Ra-kai-ora (day of nourishing food) who had Ha-tu-moana (breath standing on the sea) who took Hei-takiri (the breast ornament snatched) and had Mahaki-roa (continued mildness) and Tu-teka (stand and drive on) who took Pa-moe-hau (Fort of the sleeping wind) and had Rangi-hawe (different day to other days) who took Tu-moe-tahanga (god of war sleeping naked) and had Tama-tea-moiri (fair son who was taller than others) and Tu-rau-kawa-po-roa (man of the raukawa, sweet scented shrub of the long night). Tama tea moiri (fair son towering above others) took Tu iti (little god of war) and had Tu-haere-ao (god of war that walks in the world) who took Hine-koropanga (or Koropana) (daughter of the fillip) ad had Tu-mahuki-rongo-uri (god of war, whose trembling is heard by his descendants) who took Taputu-iti (little screen).
We will now follow the line of descent of Tonga-awhi-kau (south of embrace for nought). The next born after Ra-kei-ora (day of delighted finery) was Tama-tea-hua-tahi (fair son of one child) who had Te-nuku-roa (The distance) who took Taputu-rangi (screen of heaven) and had Te-ha-tauira (breath of the disciple) who took Makura-ariki (glowing red lord) and had Tama-ahu (son of the heap) who took Te-rua-pokaia (the opened pit) who had Tama-roroa (tall sons) who took Whatu-pokeka (weave in perplexity) who had Koropanga-tahae-nui (fillip the great thing) who took Manu-nui-a-hawa-iki (great bird of Hawa-iki) who had Tonga-roa (long south) who took Nu(Ngu)-a-kai wa-hua (squid of Kai-wa-hua (time of much food)) who had Tu-raukawa (god of Raukawa) who took Ue-nuku-pane (distant trembling of the head) and had Tu-pati-haoa (god of war spurting while caught in a net) and Te-ahi pa-taua (fire touched by a war party) who took Hine-paia (daughter obstructed) and had Tama-hare whenua (son of offensive land) who took Runga (above) and had Uru-te-angina (wind of the west) who took Hi-tapa-i-ru (lip or margin that makes a hissing noise and trembles) and had Rangi taua (day of a war party) who took Hine-pua (daughter of the bloom) and had Rangi-mahu (day of wound curing) who took Hau-tohi-kawa (food prepared for eating at the opening ceremonies of a new house) and had Hi-ta-rere (contempt at fleeing) who took Tuku-io (let down) and had Rau-kata-mea (the crowd laughing at things) and took Tawhaki-rangi (day of adoption) and had Makau-ri (beloved shut from view by a screen) and Hi-ta-rere (screen that is pushed away) and Marere (lost or dropped) who took Nga-tia (the sticks stuck up) and had Rangi-mahu (day of recovery) who took Uru-tahua (property of the west) and had Ingo (charmed as birds when called with the noise made with a rau-rekau leaf (d)) and Naho (group of people) and Te-wai-nui (the great water) and Rangi-taua (day of war parties). Te-wai-nui took Tuhinga-rae (marked or tattooed on the forehead) and had Ta-kuta-ngarue (pluck the equisetum trembling) and Horomona.
After Mare (cough) came Uru-toetea (the untied west) who took Tama-whero (red son) and had Tonga-awhi-kau (south embraced for nought) who took Hine-kiwi (Kiwi apteryx daughter) and had Hua (fruit) and Te-waka-takere-nui (canoe of great keel or great tribe) and Puia (volcano) who took Rangi-mata-aho (face of radiant light) and had Tonga-awhi-kau (south embrace for nought) and Te-waka-takere-nui (canoe of great keel) took Hine-ata (daughter at dawn) and had Te-harawira-awhio-whenua (the traveller round the land).
(209A to follow this)