Rangitihi

Rangitihi appears in Te Arawa genealogies as a descendant of Tama-te-kapua and as the son of Uenuku-mai-rarotonga and Hinetu-te-rauniao. He was born at Maketu and later left to establish settlements at Pakotore on the Kaituna River and at Matapara. He fathered eight children—the 'eight hearts of Rangitihi'—whose descendants settled widely around the Rotorua Lakes District and formed iwi and hapū such as Ngāti Rangitihi.

The provided sources do not supply any physical description of Rangitihi; no details about his clothing, markings, stature, or other corporeal features are recorded in the cited material.

The sources attribute to Rangitihi the capacities and actions of a rangatira: founding settlements, forming marriage alliances, leading war parties, and establishing genealogical claims to land and status. He is not described as possessing supernatural powers in the cited material. Narrative accounts emphasize leadership in battle (including a proverbatic episode in which his head was bound with akatea to continue leading) and the social authority to determine succession and funerary procedures.