Tane and Tu
These two had contrasting personalities. Tane was peaceable and philosophic while his younger brother was aggressive and a man of action. The brothers clashed. For his part in that affair Tane was given the lordship of Tikitiki-nui-a-rangi—the fourth heaven—and with the role the title Tane-nui-a-rangi.
[The creation includes many heavens and also basement levels. The numbers are in question; mention is made of twelve heavens and at least four basement levels. The higher the level the more spiritual the environment.] Tu for his part lost the power to travel to the different heavens. The korero tahito ends.In retrospect we can trace the growth of expansion and can say that it is a propensity in the creation. It was present at the level of awareness or consciousness and then extended into the physical level; more specifically into the realm of bodily experience and of geographic realms.
In the Tane and Tu korero tahito the field of expansion is mana. Themana of Tu is in the temporal field; that of Tane-nui-a-rangi is in the divine field, with one foot nevertheless in the temporal field. This situation has not, however, been taken to mean that the flow of mana from the realm of Tane into that of Tu is more fluid than vice versa. This expansion is not expressed as a feeling or reaching toward a God or origin at this stage or for a long time to come. Emphasis is sometimes placed upon the element of confrontation, the situation that appears to have developed when the two mana came into contact. However this korero tahito is not mentioned among explanations of the rites invoked when different mana are brought together; as for example, the rites invoked when visitor and host come together on the occasion of a hui.