Ep 35 - Maori Myths - Whiro & Taniwha

This week we looked to New Zealand for two Maori myths to share.

Rowan brings you the story of Tane and Whiro and Tracey shares the tale of a famous Taniwha.

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Sources

5 minute folklore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PhnolOYRI&ab_channel=FiveMinuteFolklore

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taniwha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_longfin_eel

Teara Govt

https://teara.govt.nz/en/taniwha

NZ Geo

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwha/

Maori Word of the Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUcgqIteIU&ab_channel=AucklandZoo

Te Reo Singalong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wAny_xTwA&ab_channel=TeReoSingalong

Nat Lib NZ

Maori Affairs Department. Hinekorako Mermaid of Te Reinga - (Te Ao Hou - No. 19 August 1957). Ref: Mao19TeA. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/201901

Teao Moari News

https://www.teaomaori.news/black-hole-resembles-whiro-atua-darkness-maori-astronomer
Te Pā o Rākaihautū

https://hail.to/rakaihautu/article/BjTHsrB

Hana Tapiata

https://www.hanatapiata.com/

The Knowledge Basket

https://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/about/knowledge-basket-legend/

Kupu Maori

https://kupu.maori.nz/

Nerdist

https://nerdist.com/article/the-dead-lands-creators-interview-shudder/

Te Ara

https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-ao-marama-the-natural-world/page-3#:~:text=Te%20Kore%20%E2%80%93%20a%20world%20beyond&text=This%20other%20world%20or%20dimension,'unlimited%20potential%20for%20being'.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-waonui-a-tane-forest-mythology/page-1

Journal of Plynesian Society

http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_32_1923/Volume_32,_No._127/Maori_personifications._Anthropogeny,_solar_myths_and_phallic_symbolism:_as_exemplified_in_the_demiurgic_concepts_of_Tane_and_Tiki,_by_Elsdon_Best,_p_53-69/p1

The Te Reo Maori Classroom

https://www.thetereomaoriclassroom.co.nz/2019/07/the-maori-creation-story/

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_0JdlRgNGA&ab_channel=Shudder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVMdwPkEyg&ab_channel=KIWADigital

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