Raho and Iwa walked from Samoa on the sea until they came where Rotuma is. Raho had a basket of earth and of it made the island.
Taro. A person called Lasi went up to heaven and brought the taro down on earth and planted it there.
1. The New Zealand legends treat of four other names borne in the Hawaiian genealogy as living in Hawaiki before the exodus to New Zealand; viz., Hema, Tawhaki (Kahai), Wahieroa and Raka (Laka).
- Hema and his wife Urutonga begat Tawhaki and Kariki.
- Tawhaki and Hine piripiri begat Wahieroa.
- Wahieroa and Kura begat Raka.
- Raka and Tongarautawhiri begat Tuwhakararo.
- Tuwhakararo and Apukura begat Whakatau.
2. Another tradition says that Maui-a-Taoanga had a sister named Hina-uri, and makes the following pedigree:
Hinauri (w.) and Tinirau (k.) begat Tuhuruhuru.
Tuhuruhuru and Apakura (w.) begat Tu-whakararo, Mairatea (w.), Whakataupotiki, and Reimatua.
3. The Ngati paoa tribe’s chiefs, in 1853, counted fifteen generations from and with Hotunui who came from Hawaiki with the first settlers in New Zealand in the canoe Tainui, companion to Arawa. Average thirty years to a generation = 450 years—1400 or thereabouts. (Sir Geo. Grey’s Polynesian Mythology.)
The proper trade wind at Tahiti is from east-southeast to east-northeast and is called Maarai. When the wind is to south of southeast it is called Maoai. The west northwest and northwest wind is called Toerau. If still more northerly it is Era-potaia, the wife of Toerau. The wind from southwest and west-southwest is called E-toa, if still more southerly it is called Farua. (Cook’s Voy., Vol. 2, p. 143.) [[353]]