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Whiro-te-tipua (aka Whiro) is the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil in Māori mythology. Usually depicted as a lizard-like creature, he inhabits...

birds and trees; Tangaroa – god of the sea; Tūmatauenga – a god of war; and Whiro – god of darkness and evil. In Samoa, where atua means "god" in the Samoan...

Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food cultivation. Whiro, the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil and death. Aituā, the god...

(16 mi), affiliated with hapū of Waikato Tainui: Poihākena Marae and Tainui a Whiro meeting house is a meeting place for Ngāti Tāhinga and Tainui hapū Te Kōpua...

Parents Ranginui and Papatūānuku Kāi Tahu: Temoretu Siblings Haumia-tiketike, Whiro, Rongo-mā-Tāne, Tāne Mahuta, Tāwhirimātea, Tūmatauenga, Rūaumoko Consorts...

Papa Siblings Haumia (Arawa), Rongo, Tangaroa, Tāwhirimātea, Tū, Rūaumoko, Whiro Consorts Hineahuone, Rangahore Offspring Hine-nui-te-pō, Tiki, Haumia-tiketike...

Māori Genealogy Parents Ranginui and Papatūānuku Siblings Urutengangana Whiro Tāwhirimātea Tangaroa Haumia-tiketike Tāne Mahuta Rūaumoko Rongo-mā-Tāne...

evil would be eternally punished and presided over by malicious spirits (Whiro-te-tipua) in Rarohenga. Whereas the “good” spirits would ascend to the mountain...

languages also tend to use the indigenous god of the underworld, as in Māori Whiro. Vietnamese might be expected to follow Chinese, but does not because the...

between the forces of Light and Darkness, Urutengangana at first sided with Whiro, but, in later times, sided with Tāne. Mythology portal New Zealand portal...

Urutengangana, Whiro, Tāwhiri, Tangaroa, Tuamatua, Tumatakaka, Tū, Paia, and Tāne; Tāwhiri "finally" agreed to the separation, while Whiro was against it...

Zartai-Zartanai, Hag, Mag Maori mythology Hina, Hine-nui-te-Po, Kewa, Mahiuki, Rohe, Whiro Maya mythology Ah Puch (Lords: Hun-Came & Vucub-Came) Melanesian mythology...

Aboriginal mythology) Degei (Fijian mythology) Hine-nui-te-pō (Maori mythology) Whiro (Maori mythology) Batara Kala (Balinese mythology), god of the underworld...

What more inevitable then ... than Pelorus Jack of the Sounds?" Kipa Hemi Whiro, a kaumātua of Ngāti Kuia is reported in 1913 as being "very positive in...

Territorial Air Force (TAF) Veterans' Affairs New Zealand (Te Tira Ahu Ika a Whiro) (semi-autonomous body) Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives...

Māori mythology the Nuku-mai-tore are forest-dwelling spirits. Tura joins Whiro's canoe party, but when it enters a whirlpool he catches the overhanging...

are held as ariki (God forms). Tuatara are regarded as the messengers of Whiro, the god of death and disaster, and Māori women are forbidden to eat them...

Tangaroa), and finishes on the night before the new moon. The new moon, or whiro, is considered inauspicious in the Māori calendar, so would spoil any celebrations...

generations ago, as descendants of Tangiia, contemporary of Iro-nui-ma-Oata (Whiro). The Aotea and Arawa tribes also have stories that relate to Chief Uenuku...

Nukutere Great Māori migration waka Commander Whiro Priest Tautūrangi Landed at Waiaua in the Bay of Plenty Iwi Te Whakatohea Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou...