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  2. Manaia (mythological creature) - Wikipedia

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    Manaia pounamu carving. The Manaia is a mythological creature in Māori culture, and is a common motif in Māori carving [1] and jewellery. The Manaia is usually depicted as having the head of a bird and the tail of a fish and the body of a man, though it is sometimes depicted as a bird, a serpent, or a human figure in profile.

  3. Manaia (legendary chief) - Wikipedia

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    Ngātoro-i-rangi and his wife, however, performed incantations overnight, as a result of which Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and storms, sent a great storm called Te Aputahi-a-Pawa that destroyed Manaia's canoes and killed Manaia himself. [7] Only one canoe from Manaia's fleet escaped, Te Pungapunga. A crewman from this canoe swam ashore and ...

  4. Category:Māori legendary creatures - Wikipedia

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  5. Manaia - Wikipedia

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    Manaia may refer to: Manaia (mythological creature), a bird-headed mythological creature and symbol of protection in Māori mythology; Places. Manaia, ...

  6. Māori mythology - Wikipedia

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    At least two references to him from 1891 appear in Edward Tregear's The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary, where he is described as "God, the Supreme Being", [12]: 106 and as a figure in Moriori genealogy, but as Tiki's descendant. [12]: 669 A third reference might be found in the same book under Ngāti Maniapoto's genealogy.

  7. Koru - Wikipedia

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    The logo of Air New Zealand, the national carrier, incorporates a koru design — based on the Ngaru (Ngāti Kahungunu) [5] kōwhaiwhai pattern — as a symbol of New Zealand flora. The logo was introduced in 1973 to coincide with the arrival of the airline's first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide-body jet.

  8. Hei-tiki - Wikipedia

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    maori.info Further information about hei-tiki, with pictures; Hei-tiki in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Auckland War Memorial Museum hei-tiki collections; Curator Tharron Bloomfield discusses some of the hei-tiki in Auckland War Memorial Museum's collection; 19th Century greenstone hei-tiki from museum collections

  9. Rongomai - Wikipedia

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    a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed by Manaia. a being in whale form which attacked and almost wiped out the war-party of Maru. a god of comet. [2] the war god of the tribes in the Lake Taupō region. a celebrated demi-god ancestor of some iwi.