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toi huarewa

1. (noun) suspended way - explanations vary as to what exactly this is but it seems to refer to the way that Tāne and Tāwhaki ascended to the heavens, or sometimes the whirlwind path to the uppermost of the heavens. Some versions say that it was a spider's web hanging down from the heavens.

I whakamārama mai a nehe mā i piki ētahi mā te toi huarewa ki te toi o ngā rangi, arā ki tō runga rawa o ngā rangi tūhāhā (TTT 1/8/1923:6). / The old men and women explained that some climbed via the suspended way to the uppermost heaven, that is the the highest of the spaced heavens.

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