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An instrumental version of "Hine E Hine" was used from 1975 to 1994 as TV2's closedown song, which accompanied a cartoon featuring the Goodnight Kiwi.[3] [4] [5] [6]It was the opening song on Kiri Te Kanawa's 1999 album Maori Songs.
Tiki, the first human, but sometimes is a child of Rangi and Papa, and creates the first human. Tinirau, a guardian of fish. Tūtewehiwehi, the father of all reptiles. Uenuku, a god of the rainbow, associated with war. Also a deified ancestor. Urutengangana, the god of the light.
Fanny Rose Howie (née Porter or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui .
Kotore married Moe-roto and Hine-manuhiri, who were both daughters of Tū-waikura and Te Pupuinuku. They were cousins of Kotore, because Te Pupuinuku was the daughter of Kotore's uncle Tama-te-rangi. He had two sons and one daughter: [5] Umurau, who died with his father at Omaruhakeke; Tamahikawai, who died with his father at Omaruhakeke
Hine-rangi, who married her cousin Tama-te-rangi. [18] Potirohia; By Rongomaiwahine: [1] Kahukuranui (son) Rongomai-papa (daughter), who married her own maternal grandfather, Ruapani and had a daughter: Ruarauhanga, who married Rākei-hikuroa and was the ancestor of the Te Hika a Ruarauhanga division of Ngāti Kahungunu. [19] [20]
This includes checkpoints such as Pou-tere-rangi, which is described as the Guard House and entry to the underworld. [1] This site is manned by Te Ku-Watawata, and divides Rarohenga to humankind. Original texts express that humans were once able to journey through this point and between worlds.
Hine-nui-te-pō, also known as the "Great Woman of Night" is a giant goddess of death and the underworld. [2] Her father is Tāne, the god of forests and land mammals. Her mother Hine-ahu-one is a human, made from earth. Hine-nui-te-pō is the second child of Tāne and Hine-ahu-one.
Yates-Smith grew up in Rotorua. [3] As a child, she had wanted to know why there was a lack of stories about female Māori goddesses. [4] Yates Smith completed a Masters degree and taught the Māori language before undertaking a PhD to look for lost stories of Māori female deities. [4]