Another Version of the Story Here is another version of the story of Uenuku and the Mist Woman. In this story, told by Tamarau Waiari of Ngati Koura, the Mist Woman is referred to by her Tuhoe name of Hine-pukohurangi. (‘Kohu’ and ‘pukohu’ are, of course, two Maori words for ‘mist’.) The people of Tuhoe trace their descent from Hine-pukohurangi; hence the name, ‘The Children of the Mist’, by which they are sometimes known. No-one who has visited the mountainous Urewera district, and seen the white mist which lies in those dark mossy forests, can doubt the appropriateness of this expression. In the following version of the story of Uenuku and the Mist Woman no child is mentioned, for unlike Ngati Kahungunu the Tuhoe do not claim Uenuku as their father, but Te Maunga, ‘the Mountain’. However this second version includes some details not given in the first account. Hinewai, mentioned in this story, is the personification of the light misty rain which falls in the mountains.
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Te Ao Hou, September 1964, Page 12
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167Another Version of the Story Te Ao Hou, September 1964, Page 12
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