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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.
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 ...
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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.
Manaia, Taranaki, a town in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand; Manaia, Waikato, a town on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand; Manaia River, a river of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand; Mount Manaia is a landmark on the Whangarei Heads, Northland, New Zealand Manaia View School, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
In contemporary New Zealand English, the word "mana" refers to a person or organisation of people of great personal prestige and character. [19] The increased use of the term mana in New Zealand society is the result of the politicisation of Māori issues stemming from the Māori Renaissance .
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.
the silver fern, often used as a symbol for New Zealand pūkeko a wading bird, the purple swamphen rātā a type of flowering tree rimu a tree, the red pine takahē a rare wading bird tarakihi a common fish, though often mispronounced in English as ‘tera-kee’. toheroa a shellfish tōtara an evergreen tree tuatara