Penetana Papahurihia (died 1875), also called Te Atua Wera ("the fiery God"), was a Māori tohunga, war leader and prophet.
In 1833, he founded a religious cult called Te Nakahi around the Bay of Islands and Omanaia, and later served as a spiritual advisor to Hone Heke.
The historical record first attests to him in 1833 when Richard Davis, a missionary from Te Waimate mission, encountered his followers at Taiamai.
[2] A year later, Henry Williams gave the first description of their beliefs, which had spread along the Kawakawa river and had adherents at Kororareka, including Tītore and Waikato.
[4] He established a religion which incorporated both Māori and Judeo-Christian beliefs; Nakahi was identified as a ngarara, a kind of taniwha, and its followers, believing themselves to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel, called themselves Hurai (Jews) and observed the Jewish Sabbath.
The Hurai believed in an abundant heaven, described by Catholic missionary Louis Catherin Servant as "... the land of happiness, the residence of those who are good.
A popular story circulated that Te Atua Wera had given Kaitoke an enchanted musket that would make him invulnerable, but the British captured him after a number of skirmishes anyway.
Two years later, at the outbreak of the Flagstaff War, Te Atua Wera became a spiritual advisor to Hone Heke.
Te Atua Wera was also present at the Battle of Ohaeawai, where he made divinations from the scalp of the dead Lieutenant George Phillpotts and composed two songs, one of which foretold victory against the British.