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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 65

2. Te atua-o-parapara: or, abbreviated, Oparapara

2. Te atua-o-parapara: or, abbreviated, Oparapara.

Here, too, the last word (parapara) has several meanings.—(1) Dregs, dross, small fragments, crumbs, slime, scud, &c. (2) A sacred isolated spot or place,—fire,—food, &c. Either or both of the above may be well-applied here:—(1) for snow,—as dregs, scud, &c., deposits from the Southerly gales*:—(2) sacred isolated peak; (N.B. What the old Chief said respecting it, p. 37).

The other three words,—Te,—atua,—and o,—as before.

Then we have,—The disagreeable hateful (place) of the leavings of the page 69 cold Southerly gales,—i.e., snow. Or, if abbreviated, (Oparapara,)—"place" (understood) "of snow." Or, the name may have originally been, carrying out the personification,—Te-atua-ko-parapara; (the k being dropped, as is often done for abbreviation and euphony;) which only serves to intensify disgust at the place.

Those are two of the culminating peaks of the range, and are visible all over Hawke's Bay and country E. and S.

* See Para-te-tai-tongs, = Dirt, or dregs, from-the-Southem-Sea,—the name of the higher mountain in the interior, always covered with snow: p.45.—Also, "Nomenclature,"p. 16.