Tangotango

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Māori mythology, Hāpai (sometimes called Tangotango) was a celestial woman who fell in love with the great hero Tāwhaki and came to earth to become his wife. After bearing him a daughter, Arahuta, she returned to heaven. Tāwhaki and his brother set out on a great adventure to find her.

[edit] References

• R.D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 50, 87-88.