Uenuku (or Uenuku-Kōpako, also given to some who are named after him) is an atua of rainbows and a prominent ancestor in Māori tradition. Māori believed...
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Te Ure o Uenukukōpako is a Māori iwi of the Te Arawa confederation in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand. Chief Uenukukōpako was a great-great-great-great...
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Tapuae-o-Uenuku, formerly Mount Tapuaenuku, is the highest peak in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island. The name translates from Māori as "footprint...
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Te Uenuku, or simply Uenuku, is an early Māori carving stored (but not displayed) at Te Awamutu Museum in the North Island of New Zealand. Te Uenuku (literally...
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Pouerua. From this union came the first-born son, Uenuku. Uenuku was also known as Uenuku-kuare (Uenuku who was not blessed upon birth due to the ignorance...
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of Wareware, son of Murirangawhenua and Mahuika. This Uenuku should not be confused with Uenuku, a more prominent atua. Mythology portal New Zealand portal...
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Te Korowai o Wainuiārua (redirect from Ngāti Uenuku)
middle Whanganui River area. It is made up of the Tamahaki, Tamakana and Uenuku ki Manganui-a-te-Ao, nā Tukaihoro hapū. Its area of interest covers some...
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Tahu, the family lived on Mangaia. Ruatapu became offended when his father Uenuku elevated his older half-brother Kahutia-te-rangi ahead of him. When Ruatapu...
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Tinirau, a guardian of fish. Tūtewehiwehi, the father of all reptiles. Uenuku, a god of the rainbow, associated with war. Also a deified ancestor. Urutengangana...
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Ruatapu was a son of the great chief Uenuku, and a master canoeist in Polynesian tradition who is said to have lived around 30 generations ago. Most Māori...
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Moeraki (redirect from Uenuku (Moeraki wharenui))
ground) of Ngāi Tahu and its Te Rūnanga o Moeraki branch, and includes the Uenuku wharenui. Moeraki Peninsula is a breeding area for yellow-eyed penguin,...
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national importance. Te Uenuku, or simply Uenuku is an important early Māori carving housed at Te Awamutu Museum. Te Uenuku (literally "The rainbow")...
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is the origin of war, powerful local deities such as Kahukura, Maru, or Uenuku were also called upon during times of war. A song by Alien Weaponry, Kai...
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Māngere Arts Centre - Ngā Tohu o Uenuku is an Auckland Council-owned and operated arts venue in the suburb of Māngere, in Auckland, New Zealand. The purpose-built...
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point in the range is Single Cone (2319 metres). The adjacent Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains southeast of the Remarkables culminate in Mount Tūwhakarōria...
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Hector Mountains (redirect from Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains)
The Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains are a mountain range in the New Zealand region of Otago, near the resort town of Queenstown and just south of the...
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Raglan, New Zealand (redirect from Mai Uenuku ki te Whenua Marae)
Waitetuna valley The hapū of Ngāti Tamainupō also have a meeting place, Mai Uenuku ki te Whenua Marae, in the inner harbour, between Te Uku and Waingaro. In...
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1350. A trickster, his theft of fruit from the orchard of the chieftain Uenuku escalated into a feud which forced him to leave the ancestral homeland of...
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surrounded by mountains. Two mountain ranges, the Remarkables and the Tapuae-o-Uenuku / Hector Mountains, lie along its southeastern edge. It is a common venue...
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Raetihi (category Uenuku-Kōpako)
Māori people living here in the fourteenth century has been found. Ngāti Uenuku dwelled at Raetihi and Waimarino (known now as National Park, located approximately...
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chief Uenuku of Hawaiki. One year, after Turi's tribute to Uenuku was insufficient as the annual harvest was not as plentiful as usual, Uenuku killed...
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Rotoiti, Bay of Plenty (redirect from Uenuku mai Rarotonga)
were unemployed. The Rotoiri area has seven marae: Punawhakareia Marae and Uenuku mai Rarotonga meeting house is a meeting place of the Ngāti Pikiao hapū...
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"Schools Pride Week – Celebrating Pride in Every School | Whakanuia te uenuku ki ia kura". Retrieved 26 October 2022. "School Diversity Week". Just Like...
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been associated with captaining it. A deifed person, or persons, named Uenuku features with certain roles in some canoes' migration stories. Often he...
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Kakramea for Kakaramea (1801, Hauraki, p. 261), toges for tokis, Wannugu for Uenuku and gumera for kumara (1801, Hauraki, pp. 261, 266 and 269), Weygate for...
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fruit from Uenuku's poroporo tree. Uenuku declares war, and with his friend Toi he attacks the village of Houmai, but the forces of Uenuku were ultimately...
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Rongorongo as a present by her father Toto. After Rongorongo overheard Uenuku chanting incantations of Turi's murder, Turi and his people fled to New...
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highest) and Mount Taranaki (65th highest) — are in the South Island. Tapuae-o-Uenuku, in the Kaikōura Ranges, is the highest peak outside the Southern Alps....
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on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021. The first we hear of this Uenuku in Maori story is, that he was living at a place named Aotea-roa (the same...
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8 March 2021 (2021-03-08) 3 "Te Ao Uenuku ― Part 1" Paula Boock & Donna Millane Robert Sarkies 15 March 2021 (2021-03-15) 4 "Te Ao Uenuku ― Part 2" Paula Boock &...
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