Tangotango

Tangotango

In Māori mythology, Hāpai (sometimes called Tangotango) was a celestial woman who fell in love with the great hero Tāwhaki and came to earth to become his wife. After bearing him a daughter, Arahuta, she returned to heaven. Tāwhaki and his brother set out on a great adventure to find her.

References

*R.D. Craig, "Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology" (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 50, 87-88.


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