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Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated foods, particularly sweet potato / Kumara. Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds. 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 ...
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.
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.
As the god of war, all taua were dedicated to him and he was treated with the greatest respect and awe. Tūmatauenga inspires the New Zealand Army 's Māori name: Ngāti Tūmatauenga where all soldiers are deemed of the same iwi ("tribe") under the deity's patronage regardless of racial heritage. [ 1 ]
Maru is a Māori war god, especially well known in southern New Zealand, where he replaces Tūmatauenga (commonly shortened to Tū), the war god of the rest of New Zealand. In the Hawaiian Islands he is an evil and restless god who has no time to grow his own food and nonetheless rewards his priests' services. [1]
Pages in category "Māori gods" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ao (Māori mythology)
A Maori warrior greets tourists at Waitangi in 2023 (AFP via Getty Images) ... Maori fear that New Zealand becoming a republic could undermine the protections and rights guaranteed to Maori by the ...
Christianity was adopted by Māori across New Zealand during the 19th century. In 1845, 64,000 Māori were attending church services, over half of the estimated population of 110,000. [4] By then, there was probably a higher proportion of Māori attending Church in New Zealand than British people in the United Kingdom. [5]