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==The waves of {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}}==
The episode where {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} threatens to return as the great waves of the eighth month may explain other accounts which portray {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} as having invoked a great flood which destroyed Hawaiki. Such accounts or conclusions may result from Christian influence. According to {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}}'s account in the {{lang|mi|Ngāti Porou|italic=no}} accounts, {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} shouted out to {{lang|mi|Kahutia-te-rangi|italic=no}} that he would return to fight him: "The great waves of the eighth month, they are me! I am then approaching!"<ref name="Reedy1993"/><ref name="Reedy1997">{{cite book|author=Reedy, Anaru|date=1997|title=Ngā Kōrero a Pita Kāpiti: The Teachings of Pita Kāpiti|location=Christchurch|publisher=Canterbury University Press|pages=83–85)}}</ref> In an endnote, Reedy writes:

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In the eighth month of the Māori calendar, in the early summer, large waves known as {{lang|mi|ngā tai o Rangawhenua}}, {{lang|mi|Rangawhenua|italic=no}}'s waves, sometimes break upon the shore on the East Coast. In this episode {{lang|mi|Ruatapu|italic=no}} announces that in the eighth month he will take this form, and follow {{lang|mi|Paikea|italic=no}}.<ref name="Reedy1993"/>
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The eighth month of the Māori calendar is Kohitātea (December-January) according to [[Ngāi Tūhoe]].<ref name=teara-lunarmonths>{{cite web|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/maramataka-the-lunar-calendar/page-1|title=Lunar Months|publisher=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=20 April 2020}}</ref>