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MYTHOLOGY. 
for that. Thus, some part of the earth was destroyed when- 
ever TV or the wind exerted its power. The names of those 
ancestors by whom the earth was injured, were these : Ua- 
nui, heavy rain ; Ua-roa, long rain ; Ua-whatu, hail rain ; 
Ua-nganga, sleet rain, dew, heavy dew, and chilly dew. 
The grand surface of the earth was covered with water, a 
small part only being dry land. 
After that, light shone clearly on the earth; then first 
men began to multiply ; the offspring of Tumata-uenga 
and his brethren were increased by the night and by the 
day, by the nothing, and by the seeking, by Runuku and his 
children up to Ngae-nui and his family, to Whiro-te-tupua 
and his sons, to Tiki tawhito Ariki, Tiki the ancient lord, 
and his sons. The children of Tumata-uenga also very 
greatly increased until the birth of Maui. 
Heaven still continues to dwell apart from his partner the 
earth, but she still continues to weep for her husband, as the 
mist upon the mountains rolls up to heaven, and the tears of 
heaven constantly fall on the earth in the form of dew. 
The next person who appears on the stage is Maui : he 
may be called the grand hero of the Hew Zealand mythology, 
and it is upon his history the natives delight to dwell. A 
person called Tara-hunga is said to have been the father of 
the Maui family ; another tradition makes Makea-tu-tara 
his father and Taranga his mother; his was a premature 
birth, so his mother cut off her tikitiki, long tresses, and 
wrapping him in them cast him into the sea ; there the winds, 
storms and wave-uplifting gales nursed him, and at last threw 
him up on the shore, where he was found by his great an- 
cestor Tama-nui-ki-te-rangi, who carried him to his house and 
suspended him from the roof, that the smoke and warm air 
might restore him ; thus he grew up and his mother called 
him Maui-tiki-tiki-a Taranga, or Maui formed in the top-knot 
of Taranga; his father Makea-tu-tara at his baptism omitted 
some of the Karakias, and this caused Maui to be subject to 
death : he had four brothers, but he the last, or youngest, 
is the most important character : his elder brethren were 
surnamed Ware- ware, which signifies that they were forget- 
