papa rangaranga o haho i te tai.mo tuu huehue

rangaranga o haho i te tai.mo tau hahave rere a-

i ka pae.mo tuu ngū rere ai ka paē.mo te ika

aringa riva nei he aku renga.ai ka paē.

mo tau papa rangaranga o haho i te tai

mo tuu huehue rangaranga o haho i te tai

mo tau hahave rere ai ka pae

mo tau ngu rere ai ka pae

mo te ika aringa riva nei he aku renga ai ka pae

Able (?) to put an end to the flight of the flying fish ngu;

Put an end to this fish, a dorado, with the good face!

Hue. To congregate, to get together; huega, meeting, reunion of persons, heap, pile of things; hue hau, ball of string. Huehue, a fish, with a round body, dark back, and light belly. Vanaga. 1. Calabash, gourd, pumpkin, pot, vase. P Pau.: hue, gourd. Mgv.: hue, calabash gourd. Mq.: hue maoi, calabash; hue ákau, pumpkin; hue, every sort of vase with a large aperture. Ta.: hue, gourd, bottle. 2. A pile, a heap; to accumulate, to agglomerate, to amass, to heap up, to collect, to charge, to put in charge, to destine, to consider, to camp, to pile up, to mass, to assemble, to conceal, to reunite; hue ke, to choose; hue no, a halt; hue ki ruga, to put on another; hakahue, to heap up, to amass, to assemble; huega, mass, sheepfold, camp, collection, company, society, council, corporation, faculty, crowd, group, leage. Mgv.: hue, to collect, to gather together, to heap up. Mq.: huevaevae, calf of the leg; huefenua, the terrestrial globe. Ta.: hue, to heap up. Churchill. Pau.: 1. Emotion. Ta.: huehue, to show fear. 2. To carry, to conduct. Mgv.: akahue, to carry a crop of foodstuff. Churchill. Mgv.: A fish. Ta.: huehue, id. Mq.: huehue-kava, id. Sa.: sue, id. Churchill.

E:91

= segments from Br10 and Br9 and two doubtful lines (The Eighth Land, p. 290.)

The middle (te tini) was located in front of the bay of Hanga Rau [te tini o mua i te hanga.o hanga rau]. The feather garlands went up, continued, and reached Puku Parari [i iri ai te maro.i oho.ai.he tuu ki puku parari]. They went up again and reached Puku O Heha [he iri hokoou he tuu.ki puku o heha].

From Puku O Heha they formed (a line) to the side, to Aro Huri [i hakataha hokoou ai ka aro huri]. From Aro Huri they turned again toward the sea [i hoki hokoou ai.a tai] and reached Maunga Koua [he tuu ki maunga koua], went down, went their way, and reached Hira Moko [he turu he oho.he tuu ki hira moko]. (He) made a second line (? he rua taupa) of feather garlands.

... Long ago in the very beginning of time there dwelt within a shell an infant god whose name was Ta'aroa. He was Ta'aroa the unique one, the ancestor of all gods, the creator of the universe whose natures were myriad, whose backbone was the ridgepole of the world, whose ribs were its supporters. The shell was called Rumia, Upset. Becoming aware at last of his own existence and oppressed by a yearning loneliness Ta'aroa broke open his shell and, looking out, beheld the black limitless expanse of empty space. Hopefully, he shouted, but no voice answered him. He was alone in the vast cosmos. Within the broken Rumia he grew a new shell to shut out the primeval void ...