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In a South Island account, Tinirau, mounted on Tutunui, meets Kae, who is in a canoe. Kae borrows Tutunui, and Tinirau goes on his way to find Hine-te-iwaiwa, travelling on a large nautilus that he borrows from his friend Tautini. When Tinirau smells the south wind he knows that his whale is being roasted (Tregear 1891:110).
Hine-te-Iwaiwa married Tangaroa and had Tangaroa-a-kiukiu, Tangaroa-a-roto, and Rona. Tangaroa-a-roto and Rona married Te Marama the moon. Hinetakurua married Tama-nui-te-ra, the Sun. [2] Uru-Te-ngangana is believed to be the father of all light, and his children are stars, sun and moon.
Hine-te-Ariki was the daughter of Whana-Tuku-Rangi, through whom she was descended from Uri-Taniwha, supernatural creatures that lived in deep still areas of rivers. She married Tumokonui. [ 1 ] With Tumokonui she had three pairs of twins, each of which carried off by spirits soon after she gave birth to them.
In an alternative, different version of the legend of the death of Tūwhakararo, Whakatau is approached for help by Hine-i-te-iwaiwa. He takes six warriors and goes to avenge Tūwhakararo, which he does by first goading the best warriors of the enemy to attack him and kills them one by one and then by sneaking into the house and collapsing it ...
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.
Yates-Smith grew up in Rotorua. [3] As a child, she had wanted to know why there was a lack of stories about female Māori goddesses. [4] Yates Smith completed a Masters degree and taught the Māori language before undertaking a PhD to look for lost stories of Māori female deities. [4]
Whaitiri, a granddaughter of Māui, marries Kaitangata and has Hemā. Hemā marries Rawhita-i-te-rangi, and has Tāwhaki and his younger brother Karihi. Tāwhaki and Karihi set off to find their grandmother Whaitiri. They come to a village where a kawa (open ceremony) is being performed for Hine-te-kawa's house. They hide in the walls of the ...
Māui is credited with catching a giant fish using a fishhook taken from his grandmother's jaw-bone; the giant fish would become the North Island of New Zealand, known as Te Ika-a-Māui. In some traditions, his canoe became the South Island, known as Te Waka a Māui. His last trick, which led to his death, involved the goddess Hine-nui-te-pō.