Omens, Tipua and Taniwha - The Maori: Yesterday and To-day

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Omens, Tipua and Taniwha - The Maori: Yesterday and To-day

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Every Maori tribe has its omen-mountain, where lightning flashing in a peculiar manner, particularly in fine calm weather, is read as an omen of death or misfortune. In Waikato and most other districts these mountains are called maunga-hikonga-uira—“peaks where lightning flashes”; in the Urewera country they are known as rua-koha; in the Lakes d...

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1930

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James Cowan

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