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Hineahuone, the Glossary

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Hineahuone ("Earth made Woman") is the first woman in Māori Mythology made by Tāne from the clay native to the mythological location of Kurawaka.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 5 relations: Clay, Hine-nui-te-pō, Māori mythology, Protoplast (religion), Tāne.

  2. Women in mythology

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

See Hineahuone and Clay

Hine-nui-te-pō

Hine-nui-te-pō ("Great woman of night") in Māori legends, is a goddess of night and she receives the spirits of humans when they die.

See Hineahuone and Hine-nui-te-pō

Māori mythology

Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided.

See Hineahuone and Māori mythology

Protoplast (religion)

A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of humankind (as in Manu and Shatrupa or Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

See Hineahuone and Protoplast (religion)

Tāne

In Māori mythology, Tāne (also called Tāne-mahuta, Tāne-nui-a-Rangi, Tāne-te-waiora and several other names) is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who used to lie in a tight embrace where their many children lived in the darkness between them (Grey 1956:2). Hineahuone and Tāne are Māori mythology.

See Hineahuone and Tāne

See also

Women in mythology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hineahuone

Also known as Hine ahu one.