 Uenuku wandered the world searching for his beloved wife.At last, nearer to his death, seeing him lonely and bent with age, Ranginui took pity, and changed him into a rainbow so that he could join his family in the sky, where they remain to this day and watch over their descendants together.The name of the mountain Tapuae-o-Uenuku on the Kaikōura Ranges translates as 'footprint of the rainbow', however its former name Mount Tapuaenuku, which means 'to shuffle feet', was a memorial to Chief Tapuaenuku who climbed Nga Tapu Wae o Uenuku ('the sacred steps of Uenuku'), the rainbow path of his war-god ancestor Uenuku, on Tapuae-o-Uenuku in search of his wife, a goddess, and perished at the top where the two rejoined in the afterlife similarly to Uenuku who, in Kurahaupō traditions, also climbed a mountain in search of his own supernatural wife and child where they became a set of mountain ranges.