Early on a winter morning, the sun rises over the peak of Mt Hikurangi, the highest point on the East Coast and the sacred mountain of Ngāti Porou. Hineruhi, a female deity associated with the dawn, is evoked in ancient waiata. An outstanding performance of waiata by a woman might cause her to be compared to Hineruhi.
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