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MYTHOLOGY. 
Ko takotoranga, 
Ko tuturitanga, 
Ko te pepeke tanga, 
Ko te weraanga, 
Ko te hunenga, 
Ko te rekanga, 
Ko te pia, 
Ko te ware, 
Ko te hua, 
Ko waka ki puipu, 
Ko waka rahirahi, 
Ko te wai waho, 
Ko te ao marama ; 
Ko te Atua ; 
4. Ko te Rangi e tu nei. 
Ka noho i Papa tuanuku, 
Ka puta Tane wakarongo, 
Ko Tu, Ko Tangaroa, 
Ko Ru, Ko Ouhoko, 
Ko Tao. Ko te putanga, 
Ko Tauira, 
Ko te ao marama ; 
5. Ko te Kore rei teku, 
Kore te wawai, 
Kore te whiwhia, 
Kore te rawhea, 
Ko te Kore, oti atu te Kore ; 
6. Te waia te Kore, 
Te Kore iho, 
Te Kore ma-nu, 
Te Kore tapu, 
Te Kore tauira, 
Ko te putanga, 
Ko tauira te ao marama ; 
The settling down, 
The making permanent, 
The bending, 
The opening, 
The conceiving, 
The sweetening, 
The manna (sugar), 
The resin (thickening), 
The fruit, 
The causing the conception to 
grow, 
The causing it to increase, 
The principle of life (seed), 
The clear light, 
The Deity (Spirit) ; 
4. The Heaven which stands 
above, 
Dwelt with the earth spread 
out, 
And forth came Tane, causing 
to hear, 
Tu, Tangaroa, 
Ru, Ouhoko, 
Tao. Thence came 
Religion. 
The world made light ; 
5. The nothing clashing, the void, 
The nothing contending, 
The nothing increasing, 
The nothing abounding, 
The nothing ; finished the no- 
thing ; 
6. The following after the no- 
thing ; 
The nothingness ; 
The nothing springing forth ; 
The nothing sacred, 
The nothing religious, 
The proceeding forth, 
The form of worship, the 
world made light ; 
