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Legendary creatures of Māori mythology. New Zealand portal; Mythology portal; Pages in category "Māori legendary creatures" The following 17 pages are in this ...
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern tales of supernatural events relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pre-European Māori, often involving gods and demigods.
Tangaroa, the god of the ocean and the creatures within. (Original Father in the Main Mythology) Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and violent weather. Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food cultivation. Whiro, the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil and death. Aituā, the god of death, unhappiness, and ...
Taniwha is a legendary creature in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. [24] In 1874, the mosasaur Taniwhasaurus, first discovered in New Zealand, was named for the Taniwha. In the movie Once Were Warriors, the character Grace Heke can be seen telling her siblings a story about Taniwha outside the family home. [25]
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.
This is an example of a family tree of the Māori gods showing the most important gods in Māori mythology. This family tree gives just an example - there are remarkable regional variations. Māori Goddesses are displayed in italics. The primordial gods were Ranginui and Papatūānuku, Heaven and Earth.
Māori legendary creatures (17 P) P. Legendary Māori people (42 P) U. ... Pages in category "Māori mythology" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of ...
In some of these legends, the Pouākai kills and eats humans. The myth may refer to the real but now extinct Haast's eagle: the largest known eagle species, which was able to kill an adult moa weighing up to 230 kilograms (510 lb), and which potentially had the capability to kill a human.