Vaitakere

In Cook Islands mythology, Vaitakere is the father-in-law of Tangaroa.{{cite book | last = Brown | first = John Macmillan | title = Maori and Polynesian: Their Origin, History, and Culture | publisher = Hutchinson & Co. | date = 1907 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/maoriandpolynes00browgoog/page/n134 100]& 294 | url = https://archive.org/details/maoriandpolynes00browgoog | quote = Vaitakere -wikipedia. }} He discovered breadfruit in the mountains and his wife discovered the chestnut.{{Cite web|title=The Ancestry of the Polynesians came to Java a — Century or two before our Era, and there — changed Rice for Breadfruit as their Staple|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BroMaor-t1-body1-d9-d2.html|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Victoria University of Wellington|page=100}}

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