Editing Whaitiri (section)

==Returns to the sky==
[[Image:Lightning02.jpg|thumb|[[Thunder]]s and [[lightning]]s are signs of Whaitiri]]
One day, Whaitiri overhears her husband describe her to two strangers. She is offended when she hears him say that his wife's [[skin]] is like the [[wind]], and her heart is as cold as [[snow]]. On another occasion, she is ashamed when Kaitangata complains that their children are dirty. She explains to her husband that she is unable to wash her children because she is a sacred being from the [[heaven]]s, and she tells him for the first time that her [[name]] is thunder. She prepares to return to her true home in the heavens, and foretells that her children will follow her one day. She departs in a [[cloud]], leaving her children, one of whom is [[Hemā (mythology)|Hemā]] (Reed 1963:159-160).