Te Hiakai Tangata E-Book

Hirini Moko Mead

• Herausgeber: Huia Publishers
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

This is a story of a taniwha that lives beside a track between villages and menaces travellers and the surrounding iwi. When a chief's son is taken by the taniwha, Te Hiakai, the people devise many plans to trap and kill the taniwha, but each time Te Hiakai outwits them. In the end, Pōhutukawa, a chief's daughter, speaks to the taniwha. Through her words a spell is broken, and the taniwha transforms into a young warrior, Te Haeata, who had been cursed by a tohunga long ago. Pōhutukawa and Te Haeata fall in love and live out their lives together. But Te Haeata never quite shakes off the spell, and in old age, he transforms into an eel and becomes a guardian in the Rangitāiki river.

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First published by Reed Books in 1999

This edition published in 2022 by Huia Publishers 39 Pipitea Street, PO Box 12280 Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealandwww.huia.co.nz

ISBN 978-1-77550-624-9 (print)

ISBN 978-1-77550-749-9 (ebook)

Text copyright © Hirini Moko Mead 1999, 2022Illustrations copyright © Reweti Arapere 2022

This book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without the prior permission of the publisher.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of New Zealand.

Ebook conversion 2022 by meBooks

Dedicated to Haerewa Hirini Moko Hetet, Tuheka Taonui Hetet and Wi Hekopa Hetet, grandsons who are fascinated with taniwha of the world

Taniwha stories are an integral part of Māori tradition. This is a new one. Ideas came from home and abroad; I worked on developing it with my whānau at home at Karori, wrote parts of it in Hawai‘i and continued it on a train ride from London to Edinburgh.

I acknowledge the assistance of fellow writer Malcolm Chun of Honolulu and thank him for his ideas. The concept of the book was discussed with Warahoe, the hapū at the centre of the story. I hope the people of Warahoe enjoy the adventures of Te Hiakai.

CONTENTS

1

There Is a Taniwha at Tuarā-rangaia

2

Te Waewae’s Army Is Embarrassed

3

Te Aorere’s Pet Tūī Are Put to Work

4

Te Hiakai’s Lookout Birds Are Slain

5

The Army of Te Waewae and Te Aorere

6

Te Hiakai Is Pursued to Paepae-o-Aotea

7

How Te Hiakai Fell into the Pit of Te Rangiata

8

Te Hiakai Disappears and Te Haeata Returns

9

Te Haeata Is Tested

10

Linking the Hapū

11

The Eel in the Deep Pool

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