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were deaf ; Ngo ngo blew into them with his trumpet, the 
trumpet with which he blew was called Koringo tangi roa, 
long blast, the ears of Rehua were cured, he could again hear 
men speak, when he found he was healed, he gave Taki o te 
rangi to Ngo ngo to wife as his reward, Maru was angry 
with Rehua, for Tu kai taua, her former husband, was Maru’s 
son, he sent the grub, awato, the beetle, moe one , the cater- 
pillar, hau waha, into his mar a, to punish him. The garden 
of Rehua was called Mo ana uru uru ; all the food of Re- 
hua was thus destroyed, then for the first time did they 
fight : behold Maru was vanquished, he was driven away, 
he fled from Rehua, letting fall his sleeping mat, the 
wakopa, covering of heaven. The battles of Rehua were 
Taruru, Tao oioi, and Witianga te ra. Maru fled inside 
the rock, Toka waiti ; the proverb for Rehua and Maru 
is, “ Ko te ika o Taki o te rangi, kai taua a Maru raua 
ko Rehua, &c.” The quarrel about Taki o te rangi caused 
Maru and Rehua to feed upon war ; the fault of Ware paia, 
the offspring of Tawiti nui truly fed the world with war. 
The fault of Hine nui te po was punished in the bloody 
battle at Pikara nui ; the fault of Oranga nui was punished 
in the battle of Kewa, within the dark cave, Rua ki pouri, 
his house. From Toka witi, shining rock, Maru uttered his 
spells. 
The different traditions relating to the grand wars which 
had formerly raged amongst them alternately speak of the 
chief actors as gods and men, doubtless, they were all deified 
heroes, Rehua being represented as dwelling in the highest 
heaven must have been one of their greatest in ancient 
times. 
Tama tuna, an Ancestor of the Patu toko toko. 
Tradition states that he found a fine large totara tree at 
the bottom of a deep hole in the Wanganui, at a place called 
Kohutu near Nga Mahan ga, every day he dived down, 
to adze out a canoe from it ; this he kept doing until it 
was finished, he used to go in the morning and stay until 
