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thus brought death on man ; had he not done so there 
would have been no death, and man would have lived for 
ever ; but he caused death by his sin to be for ever the 
portion of the men of this world, to cleave to them above 
and below. 
Then Tu* sought some cause of quarrel that he might 
kill his brethren, and that was their feebleness in seeking 
revenge of Tawhiri for their parents. He first turned 
against Tane Mahuta, because, though great was his family, 
he did not help him ; he also sought the tribe of Tangaroa, 
and found how scattered the members of it were ; then he 
turned against Bongo and Haumia ; they were not hid from 
him, he found them out by their hair, that is their leaves, 
which were on the surface ; he adzed out a spade, and 
plaited a basket, he found them out, the soil being heaped 
up over them, and dried by the sun, therefore Tu* devoured 
them both. When he had thus subdued all his brethren, 
then he added to his names the following, to equal those of 
his relatives — 
Tu-mata-uenga, 
Tu-ka riri, 
Tu-ka nguha, 
Tu-kai taua, 
Tu-whakaheke tangata 
Tu-mata waiti, 
Tu — with the dreadful countenance, 
Tu — the angry, 
Tu — the fiery, 
Tu — the lover of war, 
Tu — the man consumer, 
Tu — with the piercing eye. 
Four of his brethren were consumed by him ; one only 
escaped that fate. He devoured the kumara, the fern root, 
fish, birds and fruit, but the wind he could not ; therefore 
his quarrel with him still remains, and his anger was met 
by that of his brother the wind. He took off the tapu from 
his four relatives, therefore suiting his spells for each, one 
for the trees, another for the fish, one for the kumara, another 
for the fern root, that he might compel them all to become 
his food; he had spells to lay the wind and calm the sky, 
and also for the earth, that it might be subject to his 
will. Thus man has many spells to overcome his brethren ; 
some to appease, some for spirits, some for this and some 
