Maori Mythology
Maori Mythology: The Complete Guide to Māui, Tāne, and the Gods of Aotearoa
Māui, Tāne, and Rangi and Papa
The mythology of New Zealand’s first people: the sky-father and earth-mother locked in an embrace, the children who forced them apart to let in the light, and Māui the trickster who fished up islands, snared the sun, and died trying to defeat death itself.
$14.99
Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the oral tradition
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The People of the Long White Cloud
- 02Te Kore and Te Pō: The Void and the Night
- 03Ranginui and Papatūānuku: The Sky and the Earth
- 04The Separation of the Parents
- 05Tāne, Tū, Tāwhiri, and the Quarreling Brothers
- 06Tāne and the Making of the First Woman
- 07The Three Baskets of Knowledge
- 08Māui: The Trickster's Birth and Deeds
- 09Māui Fishes Up the Land and Snares the Sun
- 10Māui and the Goddess of Death
- 11Taniwha, Tapu, and the Living Tradition
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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Common questions
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