Rongomai
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In Māori mythology
, Rongomai refers to several entities:
Maori mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided...
, Rongomai refers to several entities:
- a deity by whose assistance HaungaroaHaungaroaIn Māori mythology, Haungaroa is the daughter of Manaia and Kuiwai in the legend of the curse of Manaia.-Sources:*R.D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology , 54....
traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangiNgatoro-i-rangiIn Māori tradition, Ngātoro-i-rangi is the name of a tohunga prominent during the settling of Aotearoa by the Māori people, who came from the mythical homeland Hawaiki.-Rangiātea:...
that he had been cursed by Manaia.
- a being in whale form which attacked and almost wiped out the war-party of Maru.
- the war-god of the tribes in the Lake Taupo region.
- a celebrated demi-god ancestor of some iwiIwiIn New Zealand society, iwi form the largest everyday social units in Māori culture. The word iwi means "'peoples' or 'nations'. In "the work of European writers which treat iwi and hapū as parts of a hierarchical structure", it has been used to mean "tribe" , or confederation of tribes,...
. He went with Ihinga and others of his friends to visit the dread MiruMiruIn the Polynesian mythology of the Cook Islands, Miru is a goddess who lives in Avaiki beneath Mangaia. She intoxicates the souls of dead people with kava and then burns them eternally in her oven . The Tapairu are her daughters. Also see Tau-Titi....
in her abode in the underworld. There they were taught incantations, witchcraft, religious songs, dances, and certain games. One of Rongomai's men was caught, and was claimed by Miru in sacrifice, as payment for having imparted the sacred knowledge, but Rongomai and the others got safely back to the world again.
- the chief of the Mahuhu canoe in its voyage from Hawaiki to New Zealand. He was drowned when the canoe overturned, and his body was eaten by the araaraWhite trevallyWhite trevally, Pseudocaranx dentex, is a jack of the family Carangidae widespread in tropical and warm temperate areas between 40°N and 47°S, in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. It has a deep body, and a greenish colour with metallic overtones and a dark spot above the...
fish, since held sacred by the Nga Puhi and Rarawa iwi, who claim descent from Rongomai. Until they embraced Christianity, those iwi would not eat the araara (or trevally, Caranx georianus) .
- a meteor or comet, seen in the full light of day when in comparatively recent times, the Ngati HauNgati HauNgāti Hau is a Māori iwi of New Zealand....
tribe were besieging the fortress named Rangiuru at Otaki, occupied by the Ngati AwaNgati AwaNgāti Awa is a Māori iwi centred in the eastern Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand.Ngāti Awa comprises 22 hapu , with 15,258 people claiming affiliation to the iwi in 2006. The Ngāti Awa people are primarily located in towns on the Rangitaiki Plain, including Whakatane, Kawerau, Edgecumbe, Te...
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