The son of Ohomairangi, Muturangi was an accomplished navigator who started the tradition of the High Priest at Taputapuatea. He was responsible for collecting and recording knowledge of deep-sea voyaging across the Pacific Ocean.
Muturangi supposedly had as a familiar or kaitiaki (guardian spirit), a giant octopus known as Te Wheke-a-Muturangi ('the Octopus of Muturangi'), the same octopus which others were said to have followed to reach New Zealand.
Another theory for Te Wheke-a-Muturangi states that the name actually refers to the many navigation paths centred on Ra'iātea with the tentacles reaching out across the pacific (Tetahiotupa 2009).[1]
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