Rupe

Grey's account introduces Rupe first as Maui-mua, Hinauri's younger brother. Hinauri has been away from her family for a long time, and he cannot stop thinking about her. He searches the places he knows but does not find her. At last he decides to seek Rehua, his great ancestor, whose dwelling is in the heavens. He begins climbing upward, passing through inhabited regions where people tell him that the heavens above are beyond his reach. He continues until he arrives at Rehua's home.

Rehua welcomes the stranger without yet knowing who he is. During their meeting Rupe makes himself known, then asks whether any distant voices have reached Rehua from the world below. Rehua has heard a murmur from Motu-tapu. Rupe changes into a pigeon and flies back down to Tinirau's house. The people there try to catch the bird, but Hinauri recognizes her brother. She tells Tinirau who has come, and the account places Rupe's arrival on the day her child is born.

After their greeting, Rupe takes Hinauri and the infant with him as he returns through the air to Rehua. The story then remains with Rupe in the heavenly dwelling. Seeing that Rehua's courtyard is neglected, he makes tools and cleans it; he also adds a building. A beam is fixed badly and later gives way beneath Rehua's son, who dies. Grey's account connects the resulting stain in the sky with that death. It ends this episode by explaining that Maui-mua took the name Rupe after his transformation into a bird.