806 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
We have in the above enumeration of gods the great quartette 
who, according to Maori and other traditions, were the great gods 
of Polynesians—-Tane, Tu, Tangaroa, and Rongo. Hau is probably 
the Maori Haumia, the god of the fern-root—the staple article 
of food of the Maori. Hiro, I think, can be proved to be a more 
modern god, besides being the name of a celebrated navigator 
who flourished about twenty-four generations ago, and is well 
known to Maori, Tahitian, and Rarotongan traditions.* Of the 
lands named as the dwelling-place of these gods (or possibly those 
in which their worship predominated), Tainuna (translated by 
Miss Henry as “ Mixed-up shoal’) is one of the islands formerly 
existing north of the Paumotu Group ; Rai’yhamama (to be referred 
to later on, and which Miss Henry translates into ‘‘ Open sky”) 
is an island to the east of Tahiti, shown on Tupaea’s chart, as is 
also Papatea in the same direction, and which is also mentioned 
in the Samoan traditions. Uporu, the last name on the list, is the 
old name of Tahaa of the Society Group. 
In part No. | of this paper it was stated that Turi, the captain 
of the Aotea canoe which arrived in New Zealand about 1350, 
together with other canoes forming the fleet, was known by name 
to the traditions of the Tahitians. J am again indebted to Miss 
Henry for the following few particulars regarding him, which are 
introduced here as corroborating the statement formerly made as 
derived from the New Zealand traditions. ‘Turi was a hero of 
former times, born of the gods in Raiatea ; and after many con- 
flicts with them, finding his domestic affairs unsatisfactory, he left 
Raiatea and went to Tahiti; but at last he left the Tahitian Group 
altogether and was never heard of afterwards. So it came to be 
believed he never died, but was a god in other lands. Turv’s first 
wife was Raurea (in Maori, Raurenga), meaning ‘‘ Turmeric leaf,” 
and he left her in Raiatea, but took another from Te Aharoa, in 
Tahiti, away with him; she was named Te Puta-ia-fiu (in Maori, 
probably, Te Puta-ia-whiu).” 
Although brief, the above tradition fully confirms the Maori 
traditions concerning Turi, in which it is stated that he left his 
bome at Rangi-atea (which is the Maori form of Ra’iatea) in con- 
sequence of troubles arising between himself and the ariki, or 
great priest Uenuku, who was a very powerful chief in those 
times. The name of Turi’s wife who came across the seas with 
him does not agree with the Tahitian name ; with the Maoris it 
is Rongorongo, and it was from her brother Toto, that the Aotea 
canoe was obtained in which the migrants crossed over to New 
Zealand. Rongorongo’s father was named Rua-nui-a-Pahiwa, and 
* See ‘‘Journal of the Polynesian Society,” vol. 11, p. 30, et seq., vol. Iv, p. 104, et seq., 
where several of his voyages are mentioned, 
