Maori sky-goddess of thunder; the cannibalistic-grandmother-deity of the Tāwhaki cycle. Descended from the sky to marry the mortal Kaitangata on the mistaken assumption that his name ("man-eater") signified shared cannibalistic appetite; after the births of their two sons Hemā and Punga, returned to the sky on discovering the misnomer. Subsequently went blind in the sky; her grandsons Tāwhaki and Karihi encountered her on their canonical-Polynesian sky-ascent at the foot of the vines of ascent, restored her sight, and received from her the advice for the correct vine-climb (the aka matua parent-vine versus the aka taepa hanging-vine that destroyed Karihi). Cross-traditionally identified with Hapai in some Hawaiian recensions per Fornander 1878.