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20. The cooking-oven is baking badly ; 
21. Go on, bake away the baking-oven ! 
22. The oven baking above ! 
23. The oven baking below ! 
24. Rush to the fight, O Space! 
25. Rush to the fight, O Sky! 
26. Show forth (thy) valour ; 
27. Show forth (thy) valour (or, let it be seen) ; 
28. Return from the charge—return ; 
29. Cause (it) to return.—It is ended.* 
His spell finished, he fed his own son Ira with the cooked heart of his 
mother. Hence arose the proverb,—‘ Ira, devourer of the rich soft 
interior,’+ And that same saying has descended to his offspring, namely, 
the tribe of Ngati Ira. 
* A few explanatory remarks on this spell are here offered :— 
All sacred fires were necessarily fresh kindled, and that by 
fire then and there obtained by friction. 
»» 2. Meaning, in accordance with national customs and observances. 
» 3-6. Showing the Bie F rank of the deceased lady. 
» 8,9. By (or according to,—in conformity with), Hineikukutirangi, of. 
These female personages were great ones of old ; Hineikukutiran 
was often invocated on their going to the deep-sea-fishing. kis 
ame means the Bite ts tiaachn aba ane testes iad skies, or 
clouds) together, ( ? t bursting 
forth): see the énens recited over Rongoua dic 11), line 6, and 
note thereon; where, I think, these two personages are also 
alluded to: see, also, a similar sacrifice made by Uenuku (p. 15), 
and note the like names of his two mysterious ceremonial 
garments. 
» 10, 24-29. Celestial signs, of warring clouds, etc., are here referred to, 
as finally denoting approval. See Notes 2 and 4 to Paikea’s spell 
(p. 21). 
» 13,14. “ Towards the west,”—the quarter of the setting sun, and of 
death, ete. See Essay on the Maori Races, ‘Trans. N. Z. Inst.,” 
Vol. I., § 39. . 
» 15,16. Indicating his being a strenuous upholder of their ancient 
traditions, customs, etc. 
» 17. As said by the hero Whakatau,—War-song, 3, p. 68, “‘ Trans. 
N. Z. Inst.,” Vol. XIIL.,—and always meaning the opposite. 
1, 22, 23. May mean oneness of action; i.e. what I am doing here on 
earth is also now being done in the sky. 
+ The word used here is a curious and uncommon one, especially in this sense, 
and, as such, it is almost obsolete. Primarily it denotes the soft, prized, central parts 
of the Maori gourd (hue), of a water-melon, etc., though it has several other allied root- 
meanings, 
