Māhanga

[4] After some fighting, Kōkako withdrew to Kāwhia,[4] but he later returned to Āwhitu and, according to one account, he drowned Tūheitia there by means of a trick.

[8] Eventually, Māhanga divided his lands between the two daughters, giving the north to Tū-kōtuku and the south to Wai-tawake (a gender-flipped doublet of the story of Tāwhao and his sons Whatihua and Tūrongo) .

[10] Then he placed Tamainu-pō, Tū-kōtuku, and the newborn under a tapu, telling them not to get out of their canoe or reply to calls from the banks of the river until they reached their destination.

[11] When they had defeated Ngāti Huarere, Rongomai proposed to marry his daughter, Te Aka-tāwhia to Māhanga, but she refused.

Tū-paenga-roa put him to work as a slave, sending him out to collect water from a spring outside the fortress, with a rope tied around his middle so that he would not escape.

[16] Then Māhanga came down from Moehau to Kāwhaniwha and gave a speech, encouraging the young men to get revenge for his son and nephews.

At the end of the speech, he placed his famous taiaha spear, Tikitiki-o-rangi ('Highest Heaven') in front of two prominent rangatira, Whare-tīpeti and Tapaue, but a young warrior of Ngāti Māhanga, Manu-pīkare leapt up and took it instead.

[17] When they had grown up, hiis sons, Te Ao-tū-tahanga and Manu-kaihonge, gathered a war-party from Moehau and Mount Pirongia and attacked the Ngāti Huarere at Tūtū-kākā in revenge.

[20] A similar story, attributed to Ngāti Awa sources, but actually derived from an 1871 manuscript by Wiremu Te Wheoro, appears in John White The Ancient History of the Maori: IV Tainui (1888).

[21] The Tainui account of Māhanga's life after the peace with Kōkako is also recorded by Pei Te Hurinui Jones, but derives from different sources: Aihe Huirama and Te Nguha Huirama, who told it to him in 1932, and Waata Roore Erueti of Ngāti Māhanga, who told it to him in June 1942.

[14] A very different account was told to George Graham on 6 December 1902, by Ānaru Makiwhara, according to which Māhanga was a son of Tāne-atua, older brother of Toroa, the captain of the Mātaatua canoe (i.e. around 1300), who abandoned his family in the Bay of Plenty, moved to Kāwhia and married Paratai, by whom he had a daughter, Muri-rāwhiti, the first wife of Hotunui.