Editing Paikea (section)

=={{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}}'s shame==
{{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} became offended when his father {{lang|mi|[[Uenuku]]|italic=no}} elevated his older half-brother {{lang|mi|Kahutia-te-rangi|italic=no}} ahead of him. When {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} was about to use a sacred comb belonging to {{lang|mi|Kahutia-te-rangi|italic=no}}, {{lang|mi|Uenuku|italic=no}} rebuked him, pointing out that {{lang|mi|Kahutia-te-rangi|italic=no}} was of high rank while {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} was of low birth, because his mother was a slave wife.<ref name="Craig1989">{{cite book|author=R. D. Craig|date=1989|title=Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology|location=New York |publisher=Greenwood Press|page=237}}</ref><ref name="Reedy1993">{{cite book |author=Reedy, Anaru|date=1993|title=Ngā Kōrero a Mohi Ruatapu, tohunga rongonui o Ngāti Porou: The Writings of Mohi Ruatapu |location=Christchurch |publisher=Canterbury University Press|pages=142–146}}</ref>

Some tellings also say Uenuku had built a canoe for his 70 sons and set about to do their hair with sacred combs for the first voyage,<ref name="TeAo">{{cite journal |title=The story of Paikea and Ruatapu |date=September 1962 |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/te-ao-hou/1962/09/00/8 |journal=Te Ao Hou |volume=40 |page=6 |via=Papers Past |access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref> or that Ruatapu was about to use Uenuku's own sacred comb rather than Kahutia's.<ref name=teara-ngaitahu>{{cite encyclopedia |first=Te Maire |last=Tau |date=2017 |title=Ngāi Tahu – Early history |url= https://teara.govt.nz/en/ngai-tahu/page-1 |encyclopedia=[[Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand|Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand]] |access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref> Either way, Ruatapu is told he cannot use any sacred comb because of his heritage, and is shamed.

In other accounts, the rebuke came when {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} dared to walk on the roof of {{lang|mi|Uenuku|italic=no}}'s house.