Lisa Reihana, James Pinker: Whanaunga

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Whanaunga

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Whanaunga (family) features the Maori demigod Maui, he is the Trickster and Shapeshifter figure in Maori cosmology. Maui was believed to be still-born, and is cast into the ocean in his mother Taranga’s topknot of hair.

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