Blyth.— Ow ''The Whence of the Maori." 581 



(The paepae is the jetty or board from which she ascended.) 



The offspring of Punga and Karihi were the lizard-shark and 



dog-fish. The child of Hema was Tawaki. The elder brethren 



took Muri-waka-roto and Kohuhango as their wives. These 



women were not satisfied with their husbands ; they preferred 



Tawaki, The elder relatives hated him. They said, ' Let us 



go to Wai-rauga-tuhi,' where he had gone to wash. Tawaki 



prayed — 



" Let the morning spring forth ; give me my comb, my beautiful comb, 

 That I may arise and go to the water of Eangatuhi, Bangatuhi." 



" They found their brother there and slew him; after he was 

 dead they returned home. Muri-waka-roto demanded, ' Where is 

 your yomiger brother ? ' Mcmgo (the shark) said, ' At the water, 

 combing his hair,' She waited a long time and then went and 

 called Tawaki-e- . The jyukeko (a bird) answered ' ke.' She went 

 again and called to Tawaki. The moho (another bird) answered 

 '/tn.' She returned home and said, ' You have killed your brother.' 

 They confessed they had done so. They inquired if he did not 

 answer her call ; she replied the pukeko and the moho were the 

 only things that heard her. ' No, Tawaki is gone to karakia, and 

 to mix his blood with water-blood, with star-blood, with the 

 blood of what ? With the blood of the moon, with the blood of 

 the sun, and the blood of Eangi-Mahuki (fair-sky) : this is the 

 flowing of Tawaki's blood, truly the causing his blood to grow 

 that he might be restored to life.' (The union of these kinds of 

 blood formed life, and thus resuscitated Tawaki.) Tawaki is 

 alive again. He slept soundly on the sea-shore after his 

 resurrection from below, from the Reinga, he sleeps soundly by 

 the sea-side ; a great wave appeared, rolling in from afar ; that 

 wave came to kill Tawaki, but his ancestor, the kaiaia (the 

 sparrow-hawk) appeared, and cried ' ke-ke-ke-ke.' Tawaki arose ; 

 he started up from his sleep, he seized a stick, (and casting 

 it,) defied the wave ; it glanced on one side of the billow 

 which was drifting towards him from afar. Enough ! Tawhaki 

 left the shore and went inland. His uncle, Karihi, overtook 

 hun ; they wept together. 



" Afterwards they arrived at the outside (or verge) of heaven, 

 and at the fence which divided it from the earth." Then follows 

 Karihi's attempt, and Tawaki's successful feat, of chmbing up 

 into heaven. Tawaki's inimical spell sent Karihi sliding to 

 earth again ; whilst the spell on his own account [quoted in the 

 first part of this paper] took him fairly to heaven." Mr. Taylor 

 adds, in a note : " It is said Tawaki ascended to heaven by a 

 spider's thread." " Tawaki succeeded, he reached the sky ; he 

 cut off the road by which he ascended. His uncle called to him 

 to turn back, and help him to get up. But he answered from 

 above, ' No ! you all aided m my murder.' Tawaki then visited 

 his grandmother, and restored by his spells her eyesight. Then 



