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  2. Tiki - Wikipedia

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    Tiki marries her and their daughter is Hine-kau-ataata. [1]: 151–152 [b] In some traditions, Tiki is the penis of Tāne. [2] [3]: 510–511 In fact, Tiki is strongly associated with the origin of the reproductive act. [c] In one story of Tiki among the many variants, Tiki was lonely and craved company.

  3. Moai - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, Pavel Pavel, Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Museum experimented with a five-tonne moai and a nine-tonne moai. With a rope around the head of the statue and another around the base, using eight workers for the smaller statue and 16 for the larger, they "walked" the moai forward by swiveling and rocking it from side to side; however ...

  4. Māui (Māori mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Māui is the son of Taranga, the wife of Makeatutara.He was a miraculous birth – his mother threw her premature infant [a] into the sea wrapped in a tress of hair from her topknot (tikitiki) – hence Māui's full name is Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga.

  5. Are tiki bars offensive? How Hawaiian bartenders are ... - AOL

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    A giant tiki head and mermaid statue watch over guests as they sip their drinks. I'm sitting in one of the few bar stools while I watch the bartender make me the namesake cocktail, the Skull & Crown.

  6. Māui - Wikipedia

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    Māui or Maui is the great culture hero and trickster in Polynesian mythology. Very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity ( demigod ) and more of a folk hero . His origins vary from culture to culture, but many of his main exploits remain relatively similar.

  7. Māui (Hawaiian mythology) - Wikipedia

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    This version of Maui incorporates elements of the Māui from Māori mythology and other Polynesian narratives. Maui was also the subject of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole 's song "Maui Hawaiian Sup'pa Man" in his most well-known album, Facing Future , which is the highest selling Hawaiian album of all time.

  8. Hilton Head’s new iconic Tiki Hut is getting a roof. Drone ...

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    A worker with Big Cypress Tiki Huts prepares to toss a palm frond to a roofer on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 as they build a roof for The Beach House Hilton Head Island’s new tiki hut at Coligny ...

  9. Toi moko - Wikipedia

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    The head was traded as a "curio" and a fascination with the heads began to grow. This continued with mokomokai heads being traded for muskets and the subsequent Musket Wars. During this period of social destabilisation, toi moko became commercial trade items, which could be sold as curios, artworks and museum specimens that fetched high prices ...