Te Hiakai Tangata: The Taniwha of Tuara-Rangaia

by Hirini Moko Mead

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 177550624X

ISBN-13 9781775506249

Publisher Huia Publishers

Imprint Huia Publishers

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 23rd, 2022

Print length 160 Pages

Weight 220 grams

Dimensions 13.70 x 21.10 x 1.00 cms

Product Classification: Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage)

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This is a story of a taniwha that lives beside a track between villages and menaces travellers and the surrounding iwi. When a chief's son is taken by the taniwha, Te Hiakai, the people devise many plans to trap and kill the taniwha, but each time Te Hiakai outwits them.

In the end, Pohutukawa, a chief''s daughter, speaks to the taniwha. Through her words a spell is broken, and the taniwha transforms into a young warrior, Te Haeata, who had been cursed by a tohunga long ago. Pohutukawa and Te Haeata fall in love and live out their lives together. But Te Haeata never quite shakes off the spell, and in old age, he transforms into an eel and becomes a guardian in the Rangitaiki river.

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