Murirangawhenua
ancestor earth Māori single tradition · 3
Murirangawhenua is Māui's grandmother who gave him a magic fish-hook made from a jawbone. This magical artifact enabled Māui to pull up the giant fish that became the North Island of New Zealand.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
Relationships
- teacher of
- Māui
- parent of
- Māui
- co occurs with
- Hāhau-whenua, Aoraki, Tama-nui-te-rā, Hina
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Armed with Murirangawhenua's magic jawbone and a large amount of rope, Māui and his brothers journeyed to the east”
#32101 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“magic fish-hook made from the jawbone that his grandmother Murirangawhenua had given him. Then he stowed away in the hull of his brothers' waka (canoe). The next morning, when the waka was too far from land to return, he emerged from his hiding place.”
#32729 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the magic fish-hook made from the jaw-bone that his grandmother Murirangawhenua had given him.”
#36859 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001