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A poetic name for the Pacific Ocean is Te moana nui a Kiwa (The great ocean of Kiwa). Kiwa's first wife, in some of these traditions, was Parawhenuamea, ancestor of streams that flow from the land to the sea and of fresh water generally. Kiwa's second wife was Hinemoana (Ocean woman), a personification of the sea.
While Hine-nui-te-pō is asleep, Māui undresses himself ready to enter himself into the goddess. The birds who were nearby, fantails, burst into laughter, alerting Hine-nui-te-po. Hine-nui-te-po reacted by crushing him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die. The problematic themes of rape in this legend are ...
Many stories about the goddess Hina, especially in connection with the moon, can be found in chapter 15 (“Hina Myths”) of Martha Beckwith’s Hawaiian Mythology. [10] The legendary birth of Hina's son, Māui, is described as a supernatural conception after Hina wore a red loincloth she found on the ocean shore.
Māui's next feat was to stop the sun from moving so fast. His mother Hina complained that her kapa (bark cloth) was unable to dry because the days were so short. Māui climbed to the mountain Hale-a-ka-lā (house of the sun) and lassoed the sun’s rays as the sun came up, using a rope made from his sister's hair. [2]
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.
Hineahuone ("Earth made Woman") is the first woman in Māori Mythology made by Tāne from the clay native to the mythological location of Kurawaka. [1] She bore a child with Tāne named Hinetītama (otherwise known as Hinenui-i-te-pō). [2
In some versions, she is the younger sister of Hine-nui-te-pō, goddess of death. It was from her that Māui (in some versions he is her grandson) obtained the secret of making fire. She married Auahitūroa and together they had five children, named for the five fingers on the human hand, called collectively Ngā Mānawa. The symbolism of this ...
In Hawaiian mythology, ʻĀnuenue is a rainbow maiden who acts as the messenger for her brothers Kāne and Kanaloa who frequently send her to collect the offspring of Kū and Hine. She plays a minor role in the story of Lau-ka-ʻieʻie, but features more prominently as the ghost of Laka in another story. [36]