Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Ngātoro-i-rangi and his wife, however, performed incantations overnight, as a result of which Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and storms, sent a great storm called Te Aputahi-a-Pawa that destroyed Manaia's canoes and killed Manaia himself. [7] Only one canoe from Manaia's fleet escaped, Te Pungapunga. A crewman from this canoe swam ashore and ...
This page was last edited on 8 September 2018, at 12:59 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
At least two references to him from 1891 appear in Edward Tregear's The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary, where he is described as "God, the Supreme Being", [12]: 106 and as a figure in Moriori genealogy, but as Tiki's descendant. [12]: 669 A third reference might be found in the same book under Ngāti Maniapoto's genealogy.
The logo of Air New Zealand, the national carrier, incorporates a koru design — based on the Ngaru (Ngāti Kahungunu) [5] kōwhaiwhai pattern — as a symbol of New Zealand flora. The logo was introduced in 1973 to coincide with the arrival of the airline's first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 wide-body jet.
Ārohirohi, the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat.; Hinauri, sister, or uncommonly, wife of Māui, associated with the moon.; Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty. ...
The hei-tiki (Māori pronunciation: [hɛi ˈtiki], New Zealand English: / h eɪ ˈ t ɪ k i / [1]) is an ornamental pendant of the Māori of New Zealand. Hei-tiki are usually made of pounamu , and are considered a taonga (treasure) by Māori. They are commonly called tiki by New Zealanders, a term that originally refers to the first mortal.
the silver fern, often used as a symbol for New Zealand pūkeko a wading bird, the purple swamphen rātā a type of flowering tree rimu a tree, the red pine takahē a rare wading bird tarakihi a common fish, though often mispronounced in English as ‘tera-kee’. toheroa a shellfish tōtara an evergreen tree tuatara