Hotu-nui

A celebrated chief of the Tainui canoe. He married a woman of Tawhai, "who was one of the people which arrived in New Zealand ages before." He had two sons, Maru-tūahu, and Te Paka, the father of Kāhu-rere-moa.

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References

Sources

  • Grey, Sir George. (1855). Polynesian Mythology. Auckland: Brett, pp. 15, 158.
  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, pp. 86, 559.
  • White, John. (1887). Ancient History of the Maori. 6 vols. Wellington: G. Didsbury, Government Printer, p. 4:195.