Murirangawhenua
Māori · deity · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
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-TarangaGrandmother or ancestress of Maui; gave him the jawbone that became his fish-hook and weapon. Expressed as ancestor-of since the exact generational link varies by recension.George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), Maui cycle (secondary)
Sources
- existence: George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), The Legends of Maui (secondary); Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. Muri-ranga-whenua (secondary)