But there were two tendrils.
The brother seized the wrong one; it was loose, and he was swung away, whirled by the wind backwards and forwards from one horizon to the other.

Tawhaki took the right ladder, and climbed successfully.[1] At the top he met with adventures, and had even to become a slave, and carry axes and firewood disguised as a little, ugly, old man.

At last, however, he regained his wife, became a god, and still reigns above.
It is he who causes lightning to flash from heaven.
[Footnote 1: Another version describes his ladder as a thread from a spider's web; a third as the string of his kite, which he flew so skilfully that it mounted to the sky; then Tawhaki, climbing up the cord, disappeared in the blue vault.] The man in the moon becomes, in Maori legend, a woman, one Rona by name.

This lady, it seems, once had occasion to go by night for water to a stream.

In her hand she carried an empty calabash.