Descending from Te Rangi Tūhahā to Te Ao Marama, Whaitiri sought out Kaitangata, believing he would share her appetite for human flesh. Unfortunately, Kaitangata did not.
They still married and had children, a bloodline that created some of our most renowned heroes, but Whaitiri's thirst still needed to be quenched.
When Kaitangata was away, Whaitiri spotted two men out on a boat fishing in the nearby lake, Kaitangatas cousins. She swam out in godly speed that the two men could not believe their eyes. She impaled one on her tao, and dispatched the other with her kōripi.
Dragging them back to the beach in a kupenga, she demanded the other women to bring them ashore. When Kaitangata returned, he was horrified. She demanded he chant the karakia to lift the tapu of the flesh, but he did not know it. She tried, mumbled some words, then ate the flesh, tapu still intact. This act would lead to her going blind.
Descending from Te Rangi Tūhahā to Te Ao Marama, Whaitiri sought out Kaitangata, believing he would share her appetite for human flesh. Unfortunately, Kaitangata did not.
They still married and had children, a bloodline that created some of our most renowned heroes, but Whaitiri's thirst still needed to be quenched.
When Kaitangata was away, Whaitiri spotted two men out on a boat fishing in the nearby lake, Kaitangatas cousins. She swam out in godly speed that the two men could not believe their eyes. She impaled one on her tao, and dispatched the other with her kōripi.
Dragging them back to the beach in a kupenga, she demanded the other women to bring them ashore. When Kaitangata returned, he was horrified. She demanded he chant the karakia to lift the tapu of the flesh, but he did not know it. She tried, mumbled some words, then ate the flesh, tapu still intact. This act would lead to her going blind.
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