Thunder - The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical

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Thunder - The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical

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Thunder is personified in one Whaitiri, or Hine-whaitiri (the Thunder Maid), which is also a word of the veracular denoting thunder. This personification is a female, and she is also known as Whaitiri-papa, Whaititri-pakapaka, and Whaitiri-matakataka. The last three names seem to be applied to different kinds of thunderstorms—the first to one wi...

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Elsdon Best

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https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scho...

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