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Manaia pounamu carving. The Manaia is a mythological creature in Māori culture, and is a common motif in Māori carving [1] and jewellery.. The Manaia is usually depicted as having the head of a bird and the tail of a fish and the body of a man, though it is sometimes depicted as a bird, a serpent, or a human figure in profile.
In Māori mythology, Manaia was a chief of the mythological land Hawaiki. He developed a fierce rivalry with his brother-in-law Ngātoro-i-rangi, the ancestor of Ngati Tuwharetoa, but was defeated by him in Hawaiki at the battles of Ihumotomotokia and Tarai-whenua-kura. Eventually, he led a great fleet to attack Ngātoro-i-rangi in New Zealand ...
Mythology [ edit ] Pausanias writes that on the road from Megalopolis to Messene there was a sanctuary, which, according to local citizens, was devoted to goddesses called Maniae, and that its surrounding district was also called Maniae (Μανίας).
Manaia (legendary chief), a chief of Hawaiki in Māori mythology Wiremu Hukunui Manaia (died 1892), New Zealand tribal leader Manaia Cherrington (born 1994), New Zealand rugby league footballer
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.
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In ancient Etruscan and Roman mythology, Mania (Etruscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌌), also spelled Manea, was a goddess of the dead, spirits and chaos: she was said to be the mother of ghosts, the undead, and other spirits of the night, as well as the Lares and the Manes.