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Manaia was born on Hawaiki and was married to Kuiwai, the sister of Ngātoro-i-rangi, a powerful tohunga, who travelled to New Zealand and became the ancestor of Ngati Tuwharetoa. [1] After Ngātoro-i-rangi had departed for New Zealand on the Arawa canoe, Manaia held a feast, at which the food cooked by Kuiwai was found to be under-cooked.
In Hawaiki, Manaia holds a large ceremony to remove tapu; his wife Kuiwai does not heat her oven hot enough and the food for after the ceremony is undercooked. Manaia beats Kuiwai for that, and curses her brother Ngātoroirangi saying that if she does so again, he would serve the flesh of her brother the same way. Kuiwai sends her daughter to ...
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
Haungaroa was born on Hawaiki. She had a brother, Ngātoro-i-rangi, who was a powerful priest and founding ancestor of Ngāti Tūwharetoa, and a sister called Kuiwai, who was married to an important chief in Hawaiki, called Manaia. [1]
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 Polynesian Folklore, Hawaiki (also rendered as ʻAvaiki in Cook Islands, Hawaiki in Māori, Savaiʻi in Samoan, Havaiʻi in Tahitian, Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian) is the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. [1] It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.
Legend has it that this was the waka taken by the priest Ngātoroirangi back to Hawaiki; upon arrival, he fought a battle at Ihumotomotokia and Whatatiri, against the chief Manaia. He defeated Manaia, and then returned to his pā (fortification) in New Zealand, on Mōtītī Island in the Bay of Plenty. However, the survivors of Manaia's tribe ...
a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed by Manaia. a being in whale form which attacked and almost wiped out the war-party of Maru. a god of comet. [2] the war god of the tribes in the Lake Taupō region. a celebrated demi-god ancestor of some iwi.