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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.
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.
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]
Hawaiian goddesses (16 P) M. Māori goddesses (10 P) R. Rapa Nui goddesses (4 P) T. Tahiti and Society Islands goddesses (6 P) Pages in category "Polynesian goddesses"
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.
In time, he led them in a rebellion in which the spirits were defeated by the gods and as punishment were thrown in the Underworld. In traditional, pre-contact Hawaiʻi, it was Milu who was the god of the Underworld and death, not Kanaloa; the related Miru traditions of other Polynesian cultures support this. [citation needed]
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 ...
In Polynesian mythology, Merau is a goddess of death and the underworld. [1] [2] References This page was last edited on 24 March 2021, at 22:27 (UTC). Text is ...