Muri-ranga-whenua
1. (personal name) an ancestor of Māui, responsible for giving him her jawbone and all the powers it possessed. He used the jawbone to beat the sun to make him go slower, and as a hook to fish up the North Island.
(Te Māhuri Study Guide (Ed. 1): 63, 73;)
Ka noho i tōna matua, ka kite i ngā tāngata e haere ana ki te kawe kai mā tōna tupuna, mā Muri-ranga-whenua, ka ui atu, "Mā wai ngā kai e kawea nā e koutou?" (NM 1928:12). / When he sat with his father he saw people going to take food for his ancestor, Muri-ranga-whenua, and he asked, "Who is that food that you are carrying for?"
