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Te whakatuwheratanga o Te Tumu Herenga Waka : 6 Tihema 1986, Poneke, Te Whare Wananga o Wikitoria

5a. POROURANGI and HAMOTERANGI

5a. POROURANGI and HAMOTERANGI

5a POROURANGI/HAMO

5a POROURANGI/HAMO

Porourangi was born in Whangara. He was born in the morning, and it is said that the sky was blood red at the moment of birth. So it was, that he was named Porouariki-Te-Matatara-a-whare Te Tuhimareikura o Rauru. He grew up in Whangara and eventually became chief. He married Hamoterangi, a woman from Turanga and they stayed at Tapuae o Rongokako, just south of Whangara.

He was a man of great tapu, so great that he was carried everywhere in order that he did not as not touch anything, because things that he did touch became too tapu for the ordinary person to go near.

One day Porourangi went and transgressed a certain tapu and sadly he died. And so, according to Maori custom, Tahu Potiki, his brother, married his brothers widow Hamo, she being the same women that the Ngai Tahu call Hemo.

As is shown below, Porourangi had three children and it is from Hau that Hingangaroa and Iranui, famous tupuna of Ngati Porou descend (see 5b.)