Mataaho

[3][1] The features were the creation of Mataaho and his brother Rūaumoko (the god of earthquakes and volcanoes), made as punishment against a tribe of patupaiarehe, supernatural beings living in the Waitākere Ranges, who used deadly magic from the earth to defeat a war party of patupaiarehe from the Hunua Ranges.

[7][5] Ceremonies were held by Tāmaki Māori in the crater of Maungawhau / Mount Eden, in order to placate Mataaho and stop him from releasing volcanic forces.

[5][11] The couple argued over some flax clothing that Matakerepo had made for her husband, an argument that became so heated that the fire outside their dwelling died out.

[12] In some versions of the story, the couple return to the mainland, and are punished further by Mataaho, turning them to stone and forming the craters Onepoto and Te Kopua o Matakamokamo (Tank Farm) where they stood.

[13] After Ranginui (the god of the sky) and Papatūānuku (the goddess of the Earth) were separated, causing them grief and their children to war.