MYTHOLOGY. 
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From Tawhirimatea arose the thought to fight with his 
brethren for separating their parents, because he did not 
consent to their being parted from their children, and that 
the earth only should be left as a parent for them. This also 
was the thought of Tawhirimatea, the wind, lest good should 
increase, to follow his parent and to cleave to the pavement of 
the great sky. When he arrived there great was their love 
for each other ; they consulted together and agreed to send 
some of the family of Tawhirimatea to the west, some to the 
south, some to the east, and some to the north, those also 
were their names. Then went forth the storm, the tempest, 
the hurricane, the freezing wind, the burning wind, the 
sleety wind, the rainy wind, the powerful wind, and the 
strongest of all, Tawhirimatea himself. When he went 
forth, 0 wonderful ! the rainbow arose and placed his mouth 
close to Tane Mahuta, and continued assaulting him, his 
trunk was snapt in two ; his branches broken off were 
strewed along the ground food for the grub, the worm, and 
the beetle. 
When he assaulted the water, Tupari maewa, Uru-tira, 
and Tangaroa fled to the sea ; but before that his offspring, 
Punga, and Punga' s two sons, Ikatere and Tu-te-wehi-wehi, 
whose other name is Tu-te-wanawana, with their followers dis- 
agreed ; let us fly inward said some, let us fly to the water 
said others : some agreed to one thing, some to another ; 
one tribe was on one side, another on the other, that of Tu- 
te-manawa remained on the land, that of Punga went to the 
water. 
These divisions were caused by Tawhirimatea. Hence 
this jeering song— 
“ Let us go inland, let us go into the water.” 
Ikatere, a fish, said to Tu-te-wanawana, a lizard, let us 
go into the water ; but Tu' said better inland. Ika' replied, 
you may go inland and be burnt when the fern is set fire to ; 
and Tu' rejoined to Ika’, go you to the water that you may 
be caught and hung up on the stage to dry. Tu-te-wehi- 
wehi was now first assumed by Tu-te-wanawana as his 
