Kaihamu

[1] Kaihamu, whose name means 'scrap-eater',[1] was the son of Mangō, who was based at Te Whena and had become the most prominent rangatira around the Kāwhia Harbour after defeating Whatihua in a battle at Mahea-takataka.

[7] After Kaihamu was born, Mangō took Hiapoto back to Waitōtara and she remarried to one of her own people, with whom she had two further sons, Ngū ('squid') and Wheke ('octopus').

When they arrived in Waitōtara, Hiapoto's skull fell from the platform as predicted, but Ngū and Wheke did not remember their mother's words and did not recognise Kaihamu and Uetapu as their brothers.

[8][11] When Kaihamu and Uetapu arrived in the marae they violated tapu, either by sitting in the position normally taken by Ngū and Wheke,[12] or by trying to enter their house.

[7][17] Tukutehe's wife, Tū-parahaki, a descendant of Hotunui, was distraught and went into seclusion for two years, refusing to marry any of her many suitors unless they avenged her husband by killing Rangi-houhi.

He captured one fortress immediately, then at dawn the next day he attacked Te Teko and the blood from the slaughter turned the Rangitaiki River red.

When they woke up the slave told them that 'Tama-rereti's canoe' (the Milky Way) had not yet 'turned over' and that its anchor (the Southern Cross) remained high in the sky.

Returning to Maketu, all of the warriors gathered around Tū-parahaki claiming to have killed Rangi-houhi and throwing severed heads on the ground in front of her to prove it.

[27][28] John White describes the Kaihamu's visit to Waitōtara in the fourth volume of The Ancient History of the Maori (1888).

[30] Pei Te Hurinui Jones argues that the attribution to Kaihamu and Hiapoto is the correct one and the link to Rua-pū-tahanga is mistaken.