There he was assisted by Hine-Nui-Te-Pō – this was before she became the Mother who gathers in the dead. His last big challenge was to become Fiordland. There he created his first valley, Ka Māwheranui o Ka Kuha o Tu Te Rakiwhanoa, which means the river that runs to its sea, at Greymouth. When Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa finished on the east coast, he went west to the Paparoa. 'The region was all part of the work of Tu-Te-Raki-Whanoa, the atua who shaped the land, the engineer, the repairer of the wrecked waka that came to be known as Te Waipounamu. It’s an old settlement area, the old kāika on the peninsula – and of course a place of mahika kai, a zone receiving or exploiting the treasure left around the peninsula by Marokura who endowed the place with all things growing in the sea: fish, seaweeds, shellfish and so on. 'Now, the original name of Okains Bay is Kā Awatea.
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