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An instrumental version of "Hine E Hine" was used from 1975 to 1994 as TV2's closedown song, which accompanied a cartoon featuring the Goodnight Kiwi.[3] [4] [5] [6]It was the opening song on Kiri Te Kanawa's 1999 album Maori Songs.
Fanny Rose Howie (née Porter or Poata; 11 January 1868 – 20 May 1916), also known by her stage name Te Rangi Pai, was a New Zealand singer and composer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the iwi of Ngāti Porou and Te Whānau-ā-Apanui .
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.
Te Kahu-o-te-rangi was born with the name Te Wainohu at Pohonui-o-hine pā on the western bank of the Wairoa river. [2] His father was Puruaute of Ngāti Rakaipaaka and his mother was Te Matakainga-i-te-tihi, [2] the queen (hei tihi) of the Ngāi Tamaterangi hapū of the Wairoa river valley. [3] His grandfathers were Te Huki and Tapuwae. Only ...
Telugu wiki-academies were established in 2009 to heighten awareness at engineering and MCA colleges in small towns in Andhra Pradesh. Tewiki Vartha, an e-zine, was created in 2010 to share behind-the-scenes stories of Telugu Wikipedia pages and editors. In 2012, another effort was made to revitalize the Telugu Wikipedia.
Speakers of Telugu refer to it as simply Telugu or Telugoo. [45] Older forms of the name include Teluṅgu and Tenuṅgu. [46] Tenugu is derived from the Proto-Dravidian word *ten ("south") [47] to mean "the people who lived in the south/southern direction". The name Telugu, then, is a result of an "n" to "l" alternation established in Telugu ...
Tūmatauenga (Tū of the angry face) is the primary god of war and human activities such as hunting, food cultivation, fishing, and cooking in Māori mythology.. In creation stories, Tū suggests to kill his parents to allow light into the world.
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi (died c. 1871), also known as Betty Nicoll, [1] was a New Zealand leader, trader and innkeeper. She descended from the iwi (tribes) of Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Mutunga and Te Āti Awa. She is known for swimming 11km (7 miles), with her baby daughter strapped to her back, to raise the alarm after a war party from the south ...