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MYTHOLOGY. 
history and wonderful deeds, which entitled him to a place 
in the Maori calendar. These were ancestors, who became 
deified by their respective tribes, each having its peculiar 
god ; Tu was the great god of war in the north, and Maru 
in the south. Rongo-mai was the chief god of Taupo. 
There were also gods with human forms, and others 
with those of reptiles ; as in geology there is a reptile 
age, so was there in the mythology of New Zealand ; at 
one period there seems to have been a mixed offspring 
from the same parents, thus, whilst Tawaki was of the 
human form, his brethren were taniwa and sharks ; there 
were likewise mixed marriages amongst them, it shows 
how low the mind of man may fall, when given up to strong 
delusions. These ancestral gods still hold their places in the 
genealogical tables of the different tribes, and supernatural 
powers are said to have been possessed by certain families 
almost up to the present time ; thus at Waitotara there was 
a winged race of men,* whose descendants still remain : Te 
19 Rongo , of the Kumara ; also called Rongomatane. 
20 Tiki , of man. 
21 Tute-nga-nahu, of evil. 
22 Tahiti of all good. 
23 Tawiri-matea , of the winds. 
24 Mokoikuwaru , of lizards. 
25 Otunai-rangi , of the palm tree (nikau), and flax (harakeke). 
26 Haumia , of the fern root. 
27 Tomaircmgi , of dew. 
28 Haupapa , of ice. 
29 Hciuhunga , of cold. 
These three were the children of Tawirimatea. 
30 Te-apn hau , father of storm and tempests. 
Tu is also called — 
1 Tumatauenga , the distorted faced Tu. 
2 Tukariri , the angry Tu. 
3 Tukanguha, the flaming Tu. 
4 Tukaitaua , the war consuming Tu. 
5 Tuwhaka-heke-tangata , the man consumer. 
6 Tumata-whaiti , the maker of a face small. 
* Whanau Moana o te tamaiti tua toru o Turi, ka panga tona ewe ki te 
moana, ka pae ana ki te one, ara ki te uraura, ka kitea e nga tangata, ka tongo- 
hia mai, walca-iria ki te tunga roa o te whare, i kitea atu ka korikori, kua wai 
tangata, no te putanga mai he tangata, ka rere mai ka whai mai i tona tinana 
