Haumia-tiketike

Kāi Tahu: Tamanuiaraki Haumia-tiketike (or simply Haumia)[a] is the god of all uncultivated vegetative food in Māori mythology.

After Haumia agreed to Rangi and Papa's forced separation in order to allow light and space into the world between them, he was the third child to attempt to push them apart[9]: 3  with his arms.

In Kāi Tahu's traditions and likely those of other iwi of Tākitimu, gods typically considered as Haumia-tiketike's brothers such as Rongo-mā-Tāne and Tāne Mahuta are instead his uncles or half-uncles.

Haumia-tiketike being listed first, Tamanuiaraki's other offspring included:[11] Food-quality rhizomes (aruhe) were only obtained from the Pteridium esculentum bracken (rarauwhe) growing in deep, moderately fertile soils.

When ready for consumption, they were briefly heated and then softened with a patu aruhe (rhizome pounder); the starch could then be sucked from the fibres, or collected to be prepared for a larger feast.