Murirangawhenua

Maori ancestress of Maui, owner of the enchanted jawbone. Most recensions make her Maui grandmother; she yields the jawbone (te kauae) from which his great fish-hook and sun-snaring weapon are fashioned.

Domains

• ancestral lineage

Relations

• ancestor of: Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga

Sources

• George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), The Legends of Maui
• Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. Muri-ranga-whenua