At last the celestial one became his wife.

But he was not pleased with the daughter she bore him and, wounded by his words, she withdrew with her child to the skies.

Tawhaki in his grief remembered that she had told him the road thither.

He must find a certain tendril of a wild vine which, hanging down from the sky to earth, had become rooted in the ground.

Therefore with his brother the hero set out on the quest, and duly found the creeper.