Pakoti

A divine ancestress of the god Tāne. He took her as wife, by as she only brought forth harakeke flax, Tāne left her in anger. Tāne had a great many other wives at his mother's bidding, but none of them pleased him. After Pakoti, Papa told him to go to the beach at Kura-waka, to make a man out of sand.

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