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. Today the apparition of a rainbow above Tapuae-o-Uenuku serves as a reminder of his journey.