Uenuku (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Maori mythology, Uenuku is the god of rainbows. He is particularly special to the Tainui Maori. The legend of Uenuku is similar to many other vanishing lover tales such as Cupid and Psyche or Beauty and the Beast. Uenuku was out hunting very early one morning when, in a clearing, he saw a beautiful girl who seemed to coalesce out of the morning mist. He persuaded her to stay and talk with him for a moment, and to return the next night, and the next, and the next, and before long they fell in love. Each night she would come to him but as a mist maiden her home was in the sky, so she had to leave him at dawn. At last she agreed to marry Uenuku on condition that he tell no-one about her.