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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.
Tiki Makiʻi Tauʻa Pepe (foreground) and Tiki Manuiotaa (background) from the meʻae Iʻipona on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands. Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers.
Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty. Hinehōaka, the goddess of sandstone, the taniwha Whatipū is her guardian. Hinenuitepō, the goddess of night and death, and ruler of the underworld. Hinepūkohurangi, the goddess of the mist; Hineteiwaiwa, the goddess of childbirth, te whare pora and the arts; Hinemoana, the goddess of the ocean
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Odin, god of wisdom who nevertheless relentlessly keeps searching for more knowledge; associated with the runes; Frigg, she is said to know the future, but never tells. The three following goddesses may be hypostases of her. Gefjon, goddess associated with plowing, foreknowledge, and virginity. Sága, goddess of wisdom
According to such mythology, Hawaiki represents the origin of all Polynesian people and where they return after death. [17] Variations, such as Rarohenga, came to be after this traditional mythology dispersed across the numerous islands of the central and southern Pacific Ocean, whereupon it was adapted and redeveloped into new settings. [17]
Miru is a goddess in the Polynesian mythology of the Cook Islands who lives in Avaiki beneath Mangaia. She is known to feast on the souls of dead people. One way she eats the souls is by putting them into a bowl of live centipedes, causing them to writhe in agony. Miru then encourages them to seek relief by diving into a lake, where they drown.
The Minyades – three sisters in Greek mythology who were turned into bats and owls. Camazotz – Mayan bat god; Murcielago - Zapotec god of Death and night, represented as a bat. Tzinacan - Mayan and Aztec bat god; Evaki/Ewaki - Brazilian goddess of night, sleep, dreams, and day, worshipped by the Bakairi people of Brazil and sometimes ...