Īhenga was to bite Tuhoromatakaka's forehead and perineum and then bury him next to Tama-te-kapua, in order to make him into an ikahurihuri ("twisting fish," a type of oracle).
In the night, Tuhoromatakakā's ghost came to Īhenga and forebade him from asking for food or water, taught him karakia, and dispatched him to Maketu to be cleansed from the tapu of the funeral at the hands of Kahumatamomoe.
When he heard of this, Kahumatamomoe came storming in, intending to kill the invader for the insult, but he recognised Īhenga as his nephew, welcomed him, and cleansed him of the tapu.
Then he carried out the pure ritual, cutting off Īhenga's hair and tying it to a stone which was deposited in a sacred place.
At Hakomiti and Pukerangiora he began hunting, but the dog got thirsty and ran off, returning with a mouth full of inanga ("whitebait"), which it vomited up in front of Īhenga.
After Hinetekakara gave birth to a son, Tama-ihu-toroa, Kahumatamomoe encouraged Īhenga to set out once more to find new lands for the newborn.
Nearby, Īhenga heard Patupaiarehe (fairy-people) playing music at their settlement on the summit of a mountain, which was called Te Tuahuoteatua.
He snuck up and found them surrounding a burning tree, but they spotted him, so he fled, setting the forest and settlement on fire as a distraction.
Passing the hot springs, Te Pera-o-tangaroa, and Waiohiro stream, they arrived at Ngongotahā (called Parawai by Kahumatamomoe), where they settled.
[18][19] Two years later, Kahumatamomoe decided to make a trip to visit his nephew Taramainuku, Īhenga's older brother, who now lived at Kaipara in Northland.
At one point on the journey, they rested under a rātā tree and Kahumatamomoe named the place Te Whakamarumaru o Kahu ("The sun-shade of Kahu"); Īhenga responded by naming the place Te Ure o Tūhoro ("The penis of Tūhoro") after his own father, because he saw a mataī tree with a penis-like growth on its trunk.
They crossed the Waipā River, passed Mount Pirongia and Waingaroa and came to Port Waikato, where they met Ohomairangi, a great-uncle of Īhenga, who had come to New Zealand on the Tainui.
To the north, Kahumatamomoe set up a mānuka post as a rahui (sacred marker) and named the place Manuka (which might be Manukau).
Īhenga and the others travelled north to Kaipara Harbour by sea in a canoe, while Kahumatamomoe accompanied them on the back of a taniwha called Paikea.
[21] At Waikereru, the travellers became thirsty, so Īhenga sung a karakia (incantations) and stamped his foot, causing a spring to burst forth and kererū to fly down to drink the water.
[22] Īhenga met his elder brother Warenga at Mataewaka, near Kawakawa and they went fishing together at Lake Te Tiringa.
[22] Īhenga caught inanga and kōura ("crayfish"), which he later set free in the waters at Waitepuia stream at Maketu and in Lake Rotorua.
[24] Īhenga and Tama-ihu-toroa decided that the killers were probably Tuarotorua's men, so they attacked his pā, Whaknakenake and killed the rangatira Waingahe and Te Waipoporo.