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Myths are set in the remote past and their content often have to do with the supernatural. They present Māori ideas about the creation of the universe and the origins of gods ( atua ) and people. The mythology accounts for natural phenomena, the weather, the stars and the moon, the fish of the sea, the birds of the forest, and the forests ...
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Māui is the son of Taranga, the wife of Makeatutara.He was a miraculous birth – his mother threw her premature infant [a] into the sea wrapped in a tress of hair from her topknot (tikitiki) – hence Māui's full name is Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga.
House carving showing Kupe (holding a paddle), with two sea creatures at his feet. In Māori mythology, Te Wheke-a-Muturangi is a monstrous octopus destroyed in Whekenui Bay, Tory Channel or at Patea by Kupe the navigator.
Title page of Polynesian Mythology (1855). Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race as Furnished by Their Priests and Chiefs is an 1855 collection of Māori mythology compiled and translated by Sir George Grey, then Governor-General of New Zealand, with significant assistance from Te Rangikāheke.
The stars have long held a special resonance within Maori culture. Now, the plight of a small seabird has triggered a New Zealand community to seek dark sky status – and the results are awe ...
Strange animals, such as this manta ray, are Punga's children. In Māori mythology, Punga is a supernatural being, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things. All ugly and strange animals are Punga's children. Hence the saying Te aitanga a Punga (the offspring of Punga) used to describe an ugly person. [1]
A four-week-old baboon hangs from its mother at the zoo in Cali, Colombia on May 20, 2022. Credit - Raul Arboleda–AFP/Getty Images. M y closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours ...