Tuhoromatakakā

Tuhoromatakakā was a Māori rangatira (chief) in the Te Arawa confederation of tribes, who was based at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty and then at Mount Moehau at the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula.

Both sons accompanied their father when he captained the Arawa canoe on its journey to New Zealand and settled with him at Maketu in the Bay of Plenty.

Kahumatamomoe threatened to kill his brother and Tuhoromatakakā attacked him again, ripping a pounamu earring called Kaukaumatua out of his ear.

Īhenga was to bite Tuhoromatakaka's forehead and perineum and then bury him next to Tama-te-kapua, in order to make him into an ikahurihuri ("twisting fish," a type of oracle).

In the night, Tuhoromatakakā's ghost came to Īhenga and forebade him from asking for food or water, taught him karakia, and dispatched him to Maketu to be cleansed from the tapu of the funeral at the hands of Kahumatamomoe.