Kai-awa

A priest who by incantations made free from tapu the gods and animals brought by Wheketoro in the Mangarara canoe from Hawaiki. His daughter Pō-nui-a-hine was changed into a grasshopper.

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References

Sources

  • Tregear, Edward. (1891). Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary. Wellington: Government Printer, p. 116.
  • White, John. (1887). Ancient History of the Maori. 6 vols. Wellington: G. Didsbury, Government Printer, p. 2:192.