Haepuru and Haematua are the second set of twins who gifted the skull, in the creation of Hine-ahu-one, to house the brain that Rōiho and Rōake gifted. These twins, who...
Haepuru and Haematua are the second set of twins who gifted the skull, in the creation of Hine-ahu-one, to house the brain that Rōiho and Rōake gifted. These twins, who...
Para te hau, para te ōue, para te rahurahu”. A pathway cannot be found easily without clearing a track through the undergrowth. The ear of Haumiatiketike (mushroom) dominates the undergrowth...
Para te hau, para te ōue, para te rahurahu”. A pathway cannot be found easily without clearing a track through the undergrowth. The ear of Haumiatiketike (mushroom) dominates the undergrowth...
Ko Hine-pū-te-hūe tēnei. This is the goddess of the hue (gourd), a holder of Te Riri o ngā Tungaane and all who partake in angry exchanges, in war and in...
Ko Hine-pū-te-hūe tēnei. This is the goddess of the hue (gourd), a holder of Te Riri o ngā Tungaane and all who partake in angry exchanges, in war and in...
This was the first woman created from the forming of soil within the fertile clays in Kurawaka. Not created by just Taane but bay many of the children of Rangi...
Hinekauorohia was the guardian and holder of the sacred waters from all the realms except for Tikitiki-o-rangi. These were waters used in all the tohi ceremony performed at each progression...
Hinekauorohia was the guardian and holder of the sacred waters from all the realms except for Tikitiki-o-rangi. These were waters used in all the tohi ceremony performed at each progression...
These were two sisters who played a major role in Hau-te-ana-nui, the house of Tangaroa. Hine-te-Iwaiwa was the ancestor of all female affairs including childbirth, entertainment and all weavings. She...
These were two sisters who played a major role in Hau-te-ana-nui, the house of Tangaroa. Hine-te-Iwaiwa was the ancestor of all female affairs including childbirth, entertainment and all weavings. She...
Tane coupled with Hineahuone and begat Hineatauira, the flashing dawn maiden and first human. Then Tane made Hineatauira a wife and they begat Uru. But Tane did not inform Hineatauira...
Huaki Pouri was the dwelling of Tane and came about from the conversation the atua had about changing their existence in Noho-tatapu. Those atua who thought and believed in change,...
Huru-tea-a-rangi atua o te hau o te tio, o te huka. Daughter to Tāpuhi-kura and Noho-tauranga. Wife of Te Ihorangi, mother to snow frost and ice. Wife of Tonga-nui-kāea and...
Huru-tea-a-rangi atua o te hau o te tio, o te huka. Daughter to Tāpuhi-kura and Noho-tauranga. Wife of Te Ihorangi, mother to snow frost and ice. Wife of Tonga-nui-kāea and...
