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  2. Hine-te-Ariki - Wikipedia

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    Hine-te-Ariki was the daughter of Whana-Tuku-Rangi, through whom she was descended from Uri-Taniwha, supernatural creatures that lived in deep still areas of rivers. She married Tumokonui. [ 1 ] With Tumokonui she had three pairs of twins, each of which carried off by spirits soon after she gave birth to them.

  3. Hine-nui-te-pō - Wikipedia

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    While Hine-nui-te-pō is asleep, Māui undresses himself ready to enter himself into the goddess. The birds who were nearby, fantails, burst into laughter, alerting Hine-nui-te-po. Hine-nui-te-po reacted by crushing him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die. The problematic themes of rape in this legend are ...

  4. Hine-i-Tapeka - Wikipedia

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    In Māori mythology, Hine-i-Tapeka or Tapeka is a goddess of underground fire. She is the sister of Hine-nui-te-pō and Mahuika, [1] and her parents are given as Tāne [2] or Makara and Rotua. [3] According to Ngāti Awa legend, she pursued Māui after he had destroyed the Fire Children. [2]

  5. Te Whatuiāpiti - Wikipedia

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    Te Whatuiāpiti was the son of Te Hikawera (I) and Hinetemoa. [3] [4] Through his father, he was a descendant of Rākei-hikuroa by his wife Pāpāuma; Kahungunu; Tamatea Arikinui, the captain of the Tākitimu canoe; and the early explorer Toi. [5]

  6. Te Rangi-ita (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) - Wikipedia

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    Te Rangi-ita was a Māori ariki (chieftain) of Ngāti Tūwharetoa from the region around Lake Taupō, New Zealand.He participated with bravery in the Ngāti Tama-Ngāti Tūwharetoa War, fought off an invasion by the Ngāti Raukawa chieftain Te Ata-inutai, and forged a peace through his marriage to Te Ata-inutai's daughter, Waitapu.

  7. Ngāpuhi - Wikipedia

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    Ngāpuhi, like most iwi, trace their pre-history back to the land of Hawaiki, most likely from Raiatea.The name Ngāpuhi has many stories about its origin, [a] but the most commonly known version is related to a story of an ariki in Hawaiki who lived many generations before Kupe, known as Kareroaiki.

  8. Hine-i-turama Ngatiki - Wikipedia

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    Hine-i-tūrama Ngātiki (1818 – 2 April 1864) was a New Zealand Māori woman of mana, who identified with the Ngāti Whakaue iwi within Te Arawa. She was born in New Zealand in 1818, the daughter of Te Koeke and her husband Kahana-tokowai, from Mokoia Island , Rotorua .

  9. Your Name - Wikipedia

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    Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho.