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MYTHOLOGY. 
let us follow him to Wai-ranga-tuhi, where he has gone to 
wash. Tawaki prayed — 
a 
Pupu mahine i te ata, homai ra ta- Let the morning spring forth : 
kn hern, kia whano au ki te give me my comb, that I may 
wai Rangituhi, te wai Rangituhi arise and go to the water of 
e-hai. Rangatuhi, Rangatuhi. 
They found their brother there, and slew him : after he 
was dead, they returned home. Muri-waka-roto demanded, 
where is your younger brother ? Mango, the shark, said, 
at the water combing his hair. She waited a long time, 
and then went and called Tawaki-e- ; the bird Pukeko an- 
awered, -ke- ; she went and again called to Tawaki, the 
Moho, another bird, answered, -hu- ; she returned home 
and said, you have killed your brother, they confessed they 
had done so ; they inquired, did he not answer your call ? 
she replied, the Pukeko and the Moho only heard me ; no, 
Tawaki is gone to karakia, and mix his blood with water- 
blood, star-blood, and the blood of what ? with the blood of 
the moon, the blood of the sun, and the blood of Rangi- 
Mahuki ; this is the flowing of Tawakfls blood ; truly causing 
it to flow,* that he might be restored to life. Tawaki is alive 
again ! He slept soundly on the sea shore after his resurrec- 
tion from below, from the Reinga, he sleeps by the sea side : 
a great wave appeared, rolling in from afar, that wave 
came to overwhelm him, but his ancestor the Kaiaia, 
sparrow hawk, appeared, and cryed, ke-ke-ke-ke. Tawaki 
awoke ; he started up from his sleep, seized a stick, and 
casting it defied the wave, it glanced on one side of the 
billow, which was drifting toward him from afar — enough 
Tawaki left the shore and went inland. His uncle Karihi 
overtook him ; they wept together. Afterwards they arrived 
at the toimau, outside or verge of heaven, the fence which 
divides it from the earth. Tawaki called out to his uncle, 
do you climb up first, his relative answered, no, you go 
before. Tawaki again called upon him to go first, his uncle 
* The union of all these kinds of blood formed life, and thus resuscitated 
Tawaki. 
