Editing Haumia-tiketike (section)

== {{lang|mi|Arawa}} creation myth==
After Haumia agreed to Rangi and Papa's forced separation in order to allow light and space into the world between them, he was the third child to attempt to push them apart<ref name="Grey1854">{{cite book|last=Grey|first=George|author-link=Sir George Grey|date=1854|chapter=Mythology of Creation.|title=Polynesian Mythology|url=https://sacred-texts.com/pac/grey/grey03.htm|location=Christchurch|publisher=Whitcombe and Tombs|page=3}}</ref>{{rp|3}} with his arms. Despite [[Tāne]] being the one to successfully carry out the task, Haumia's involvement meant he was subjected to the fury of their brother, [[Tāwhirimātea]], god of the winds and storms, who would have killed him if their mother had not hidden him and their brother [[Rongo|Rongo-mā-Tāne]] under her bosom – that is, in the ground.<ref name="Shortland"/>{{rp|59–60}}<ref name="Grey1854"/>{{rp|6–9}}

While they had successfully escaped Tāwhirimātea's stormy wrath, they were later discovered by [[Tūmatauenga]] ([[god of war]], here representing [[humankind]]) who felt betrayed that he was left to fend against Tāwhirimātea by himself, so when he saw Rongo-mā-Tāne's and Haumia-tiketike's hair and descendants (all represented by leaves) sticking up out of the earth he harvested them with a wooden hoe and devoured them in revenge.<ref name="Shortland"/>{{rp|59–60}}<ref name="Tregear"/><ref name="Elsdon"/><ref name="Grey1854"/>{{rp|6–9}}<ref name=Orbell>{{cite book|last=Orbell|first=Margaret|date=1998|title=Concise Encyclopedia of Maori Myth and Legend|location=Christchurch|publisher=Canterbury University Press|page=29|isbn=0-908812-56-6}}</ref>