Nuku-roa

"Long earth." A heavenly being living in a place called Tamatea-kai-whakapua (the fair-faced son who folds up). His house was visited by the god Tāne after his journey to Rehua. In Nuku-roa's house Tāne found two females, called Tau-ao (sacred cloud) and Hine-ki-taha-rangi (daughter of the side of heaven), whose husbands had gone to procure rats for food. One of these women slept with Tāne; the other objected: but they cooked food for him.

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