All tribes had there own story of fetching the 3 baskets of knowledge. Portions had been taken from the Whare Wananga of Hokianga, some of them have come from the National school of Maori weaponry. There was one time when Io-Matua -Kore, the supreme god spawned the two heavenly guardians Rehua and Rautau. He commanded them to go down to Earth to find out which of papatuanuku son could climb up to Te-toi-o-nga-rangi and catch the 3 basket of knowledge.There were 3 basket one was te kete tuauri the basket of memory and prayer. One te kete tuatea the basket of malevolence and darkness and the other basket was te kete the basket of Man survival.in sum there was two stones one named huka tai and the other rehu tai that holds god like powers.
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