MYTHOLOGY. 
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“ Let the morning spring forth : give me my comb, my beautiful 
comb, that I may arise and go to the water of Eangatuhi, 
Kangatuhi.” 
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 Pukeko (a bird) answered, 
-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 if he did not answer her call; she replied, 
the Pukeko and the Moho were the only things which heard 
her. No, Tawaki is gone to karakia, and to mix his blood 
with w r ater-blood, with star-blood, with the blood of what ? 
With the blood of the moon, with the blood of the sun, and 
the blood of Rangi-Maliuki ; this is the flowing of Tawaki’s 
blood, truly the causing his blood to grow,* that he might be 
restored to life. Tawaki is alive again ! Pie slept soundly 
on the sea shore after his resurrection from below, from the 
Reinga, he sleeps by the sea side ; a great wave appeared, 
rolling in from afar; that wave came to kill Tawaki, but his 
ancestor, the Kaiaia (the sparrow hawk), appeared, and cryed, 
ke-ke-ke-ke. Tawaki awoke; he started up from his sleep, 
he seized a stick, and (casting it) defied the wave, it glanced 
on one side of the billow, which was drifting towards him 
from afar. Enough. Tawaki left the shore and went inland. 
His uncle Karihi overtook him ; they wept together. 
Afterwards they arrived at the outside, or verge of heaven, 
and at the fence, which divided it from the earth. Tawaki 
called out to his uncle, Do you climb up first ? Plis relative 
answered, No, do you go before. P’awaki again called upon 
him to go first. His uncle did so, and laid hold with his 
hands on the fence which encircled it. Whilst Karihi was 
climbing up, Tawaki uttered this charm :—■ 
* The union of all these kinds of blood formed life, and thus resuscitated 
Tawaki. 
