Mortal-tier man whose name "man-eater" (Kaitangata) was misunderstood by the cannibalistic sky-goddess Whaitiri to signify shared cannibalistic appetite. Whaitiri descended from the sky to marry him; after their two sons Hemā and Punga were born, she discovered the name was a misnomer and returned to the sky. The canonical-Polynesian abandoned-mortal-husband-of-deity narrative-position, structurally parallel to the Greek Anchises-and-Aphrodite, Indian Bhīma-and-Hidimbī, and Welsh Pwyll-and-Rhiannon mortal-mortal-spouse-of-divine narratives.