Hinepiripiri
Māori · mortal · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Maori woman, wife of the hero Tawhaki and mother of Wahieroa. The firewood-name Wahieroa (long piece of firewood) commemorates the log she burned while nursing the wounded Tawhaki, encoding the duty of vengeance carried into the Rata cycle.
Domains
- ancestral lineage
Relations
- spouse: TāwhakiWife of Tawhaki, whom she rescued and nursed after the attack by his brothers-in-law.George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), Tawhaki cycle (secondary)
- mother of: WahieroaMother of Wahieroa by Tawhaki; named him for the long firewood-log used in his fire.George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), Tawhaki cycle (secondary)