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MYTHOLOGY. 
0 watitiri rua ki tc, 
Mata o watitiri, 
Titiromai ra, 
Kakanomai ra, 
Ki te mata ora, 
Ki te mata o Itchua, 
Twice to the eyes of Watitiri, 
Look this way, 
Glance this way, 
With your healed eyes, 
With your star like eyes. 
Aye, aye, my eyes are cured, my grandson. 
Then Tawaki went and saw the Toka Tamiware, which stood 
there : he asked the old woman what is this ? Waitiri replied, 
do not touch them with your hands, they are your ancestors. 
Then Tawaki stumbled against it: the stone fell down by the 
sea. Tawaki went crying, you also shall cry, who slew me. 
From that stone which fell, commenced the revenge which 
Tawaki took against his brethren. He drove the shark and 
the dog-fish from the land, and compelled them henceforth to 
live in the sea. 
Afterwards, Tawaki went to Maru and his ancestors, that 
they might strive to kill him, in order to shew them his great 
power. Maru cries out to him, that he is his adversary. 
Tutenganahan cried out, that he also was his adversary; 
Rehua cried out, he was his adversary. Tawaki went straight 
to Maru, the man of war, to devise his death. Tawaki saw 
Fie Wata, the sacred food store of Maru : the oil stood within 
it. Tawaki eat some of it; he uttered a spell to take off 
its tapu ; then Maru took away the tapu of Tawaki; by his 
spell he cursed every member of his body. The gods, his 
associates, held a solemn feast to destroy Tawaki, but quarrelled 
about the head of an eel on which they had feasted; each 
wanted it for himself; and at last Maru obtained it, which 
caused contentions amongst themselves. One party went by 
the sea-shore, headed by Maru ; they saw Rongomai, in the 
shape of a great whale, laid on the shore, with the flies 
swarming about him. Thinking it was a dead whale, Maru 
ordered an oven to be heated, to cook their prize; and when 
it was ready, they began to roll the body into it. This 
awoke Rongomai, and he immediately arose and slew them 
all, and cast their bodies into the oven prepared for himself, 
