352 I'ornaudcr CoUcctiou of Haivaiian Folk-lore. 



to i)ush the lic;ncns uj) for a drink of water from a woman's o'oiird. He did so and got 

 the water. Anotlier account calls the man's name Tiitii. 



.-Ihont flic Moon. Two men /';/;///<;/.' ^'a and 'J'afaliii started to visit the moon. 

 The former thought to reach it bv chmhing a tree: tlie latter kindled a large fire, raised 

 a great column of smoke, and climbed up to the moon on that, and got there long before 

 the other. 



A woman named Sina, during famine time, seeing the moon rising one evening 

 wished a bite of it. The moon grew indignant and came down and i^icked her up, her 

 child, her tapa board and mallet, and there they have remained until this day and are 

 plainly to be seen. 



About the Sun. A woman called Mangamangai became ]M-egnant by looking a1 

 the sun. Her son, called child of the sun, climbed a tree and with a rojw and noose 

 caught the sun one morning and obtained from him a basket of blessings. Another ac- 

 count sa3's that he and his mother were annoyed at the sun's going so fast; so, after hav- 

 ing caught the sun with his rope, he stipulated as a condition of liberating the sun, that 

 it should travel slower after that, which has been duly performed. 



The god of the lower regions was called Fee. 



Raho and Iwa walked from Samoa on the sea until they came where Rotnma is. 

 Raho had a l)asket of earth and of it made the island. 



Taro. A ])erson called Lasi went up to heaven and brought the taro down on 

 earth and i)lanted it there. 



1. The New Zealand legends treat of four other names borne in the Hawaiian 

 genealogy as living in llawaiki before the exodus to New Zealand; viz., lienia, 'fawliaki 

 ( Kahai ), Wahieroa and Raka (Laka). 



1 lema and his wife Urutonga begat Tawhaki and Kariki. 

 Tawhaki and Hine jjiripiri begat Wahieroa. 

 Wahieroa and Kura begat Raka. 

 Raka and Tongarautawhiri begat Tuwhakararo. 

 Tuwhakararo and Apukura begat W'hakatau. 



2. Another tradition says that Maui-a-Taoanga had a sister named Hina-uri, 

 and makes the following pedigree : 



Hinauri ( w. ) and Tinirau ( k. ) begat Tuhuruhuru. 



Tuhuruhuru and A])akura ( w. ) begat Tu-whakararo, Mairatea (w.), W'hakatau- 

 ])otiki, and Reimatua. 



,^. The Xgati paoa tribe's chiefs, in 1853, counted fifteen generations from and 

 with llotunui who came from Hawaiki with the first settlers in New Zealand in the ca- 

 noe Tainui, com])anion to Arawa. Average thirty years to a generation^450 years — 

 1400 or thereabouts. (Sir C'.eo. Grey's Polynesian Mythology.) 



The ])roper trade wind at Tahiti is from east-southeast to east-northeast and is 

 called Maanii. When the wind is to south of southeast it is called Maoai. The west 

 northwest and iiorlhwesl \\ind is called Toeraii. If still more norlherh' it is l''ra-polaia. 

 the wife of Toerau. The wind from soutlnvest and west-southwest is called ll-toa. if 

 still nK)re southerlv it is called lui'iia. (Cook's Voy., Vol. _', ]). 143.) 



