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Ārohirohi
In Māori mythology, Ārohirohi is the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat, and is the wife of Tama-nui-te-rā (the Sun). She created Mārikoriko In a Māori legend attributed by ethnographer John White to the Ngāti Hau iwi (tribe), Mārikoriko (Twilight) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi (Shimmering heat) from the heat of the sun and the echoing cliff. She married Tiki, the fi ... (Twilight), the first woman, from a mirage and then asked Paoro (Echo) to give her a voice. References Māori goddesses Creator goddesses Trickster goddesses {{deity-stub ...
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Māori Mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori people, Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern tales of supernatural events relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pre-European Māori, often involving gods and demigods. Māori tradition concerns more folkloric legends often involving historical or semi-historical forebears. Both categories merge in to explain the overall origin of the Māori and their connections to the world which they lived in. The Māori did not have a writing system before European contact, beginning in 1769, therefore they relied on oral retellings and recitations memorised from generation to generation. The three forms of expression prominent in Māori and Polynesian oral literature are genealogical recital, poetry, and narrative prose. Experts in these subjects were broadly known as . The rituals, beliefs, and general worldview of Māori society were ...
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Mārikoriko
In a Māori legend attributed by ethnographer John White to the Ngāti Hau iwi (tribe), Mārikoriko (Twilight) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi (Shimmering heat) from the heat of the sun and the echoing cliff. She married Tiki, the first man, and gave birth to Hine-kau-ataata In the Māori mythology of the Ngāti Hau tribe, Hine-kau-ataata, translated as "maid swimming in the shadow," is the daughter of Tiki (mythology), Tiki (Man) and Mārikoriko (Twilight). When she is born, the first clouds appear in the sky. Ref ... (woman floating in shadows). References Legendary Māori people Legendary progenitors Women in mythology Mythological first humans {{Maori-myth-stub ...
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Paoro
Paoro is a mythical entity that appears in early Māori creation myths. The name ''Paoro'' (meaning ''echo'') appears in John White's English translation of a Māori story attributed by him to the Ngāti Hau tribe, as a personal name meaning 'Echo'. However, in the Māori language original which White also supplies, the name Paoro does not appear – instead the word used is 'pari-kārangaranga', "echoing cliff". In the Māori story, Mārikoriko (Twilight) is the first woman, created by Ārohirohi (Shimmering heat) from the heat of the sun (Kau-ata-ata) and the echoing cliff (Paoro). She married Tiki, the first man, and gave birth to Hine-kau-ataata In the Māori mythology of the Ngāti Hau tribe, Hine-kau-ataata, translated as "maid swimming in the shadow," is the daughter of Tiki (mythology), Tiki (Man) and Mārikoriko (Twilight). When she is born, the first clouds appear in the sky. Ref ... (Woman floating in shadows). References Legendary Māori people {{Māor ...
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Mirage
A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French ''(se) mirer'', from the Latin ''mirari'', meaning "to look at, to wonder at". Mirages can be categorized as "inferior" (meaning lower), "superior" (meaning higher) and " Fata Morgana", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically stacked images, which form one rapidly-changing mirage. In contrast to a hallucination, a mirage is a real optical phenomenon that can be captured on camera, since light rays are actually refracted to form the false image at the observer's location. What the image appears to represent, however, is determined by the interpretive faculties of the human mind. For example, inferior images on land are very easily mistaken for the reflections from a small body of water. Inferior mirage In an inferior mirage, the mirage im ...
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List Of First Men Or Women In Mythology And Religion
A protoplast, from ancient Greek (''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 Adam and Eve or Manu and Shatrupa), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah). List of protoplasts ; Abrahamic mythology * Adam and Eve * Noah * Adam Kadmon (esoteric) * Adam kasia ("hidden Adam") and Adam pagria ("bodily Adam") (esoteric), in Mandaeism * Lilith (esoteric) ; Australian Aboriginal mythology * Wurugag and Waramurungundi * Yhi * Kidili ;Ayyavazhi mythology * Kaliyan and Kalicchi ;Aztec mythology * Tata/Coxcox and Nana/Xochitl - new progenitors of humankind after the flood * Oxomoco and Cipactonal - first human couple created ; Baganda *Kintu ;Cherokee * Selu and Kanati ;Chinese folk religion * Fu Xi and Nüwa (sometimes said to be created by Pangu) * Pangu ;Cowichan peoples * Quiltumtun ;Germanic mytholo ...
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Māori Goddesses
Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Cook Islands * Cook Islands Māori, the language of the Cook Islanders Ships * SS ''Maori'' (1893), a steamship of the Shaw Savill Line, shipwrecked 1909 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 * , a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 * TEV ''Maori III'', a Union Steam Ship Company inter-island ferry, 1952–74 Sports teams * New Zealand Māori cricket team * New Zealand Māori rugby league team * New Zealand Māori rugby union team Other * ''Maori'', a 1988 novel by Alan Dean Foster * Mayotte, ''Maori'' in the Bushi language * Mount Maori Mount Maori is a mountain in the South Island of New Zealand. Description Mount Maori is located 10 kilometres southwest of Mount Aspiring / Titit ...
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Creator Goddesses
Creator or The Creator may refer to: Film and television * ''Creator'' (film), a 1985 film starring Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, and Virginia Madsen * ''The Creator'' (1999 film), a French film written and directed by and starring Albert Dupontel * ''The Creator'' (2023 film), an American science fiction film directed by Gareth Edwards * "The Creator" (''Luke Cage''), an episode of ''Luke Cage'' Literature * Creators (comics), fictional sorcerers in Marvel Comics * Creators (Guyver), characters in the manga ''Bio Booster Armor Guyver'' * "The Creator" (novelette), a 1935 sci-fi short story by Clifford D. Simak * ''The Creator'' (poetry collection), a 2000 compilation by Dejan Stojanović * '' The Creators'', a 1992 history book by Daniel Boorstin * The Creator (''Sword of Truth''), in Terry Goodkind's fantasy novel series Music * ''Creator'' (album), a 1988 album by The Lemonheads * "Creator", a 2018 song by Front Line Assembly from '' WarMech'' * "Th ...
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