Rehua

Rehua

went to pay him a visit, Rehua had birds in his hair, feeding on his lice. Rehua had his servants cook and prepare the birds as a meal for Tāne, who was shocked and declined to eat them because the birds had eaten the lice from Rehua's head, which was extremely tapu (sacred). However Rehua gave him birds to bring down to this world, and showed him how to snare them. Tāne also brought with him the fruit trees that the birds fed on, and so it is that there are forests and birds on the earth (Orbell 1998:119).

References

*M. Orbell, "The Concise Encyclopedia of Māori Myth and Legend" (Canterbury University Press: Christchurch), 1998.
*E.R. Tregear, "Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary" (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.


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