Editing Tāne (section)

==Progenitor of humankind==
Some legends say that Tāne made the [[List of first men or women in mythology and religion|first man]], named [[Tiki]]. More widely known is a tradition that Tāne was trying to find himself a wife, but at first he found only non-human females and fathered insects, birds, and plants.  One such was [[Rangahore]], who gave birth to a stone and was abandoned by Tāne. Then he made a woman by moulding her from the soil (Orbell 1998:145).

In some stories, Tāne marries his daughter Hine-tītama without her knowing who he is. Upon discovering that she has married her father, she flees to the [[underworld]], and becomes the goddess of death, [[Hine-nui-te-Po|Hine-nui-te-pō]]. Tāne follows her and begs her to return. She tells him to return to the world and raise their children, while she will wait below to receive them when they die (Orbell 1998:38).

Other traditions tell of the three baskets of knowledge that Tāne brought down from the [[heaven]]s (Orbell 1998:145).