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Australasian robin
The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera.
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Banks Peninsula
Banks Peninsula is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Barracuda
The barracuda is a ray-finned fish known for its large size, fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour.
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Culture hero
A culture hero is a mythological hero specific to some group (cultural, ethnic, religious, etc.) who changes the world through invention or discovery.
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Dolphin
Dolphins are a widely distributed and diverse group of aquatic mammals.
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Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, producer, and semi-retired professional wrestler.
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity.
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Grey warbler
The grey warbler (Gerygone igata), also known by its Māori name riroriro or outside New Zealand as the grey gerygone, is an insectivorous bird in the family Acanthizidae endemic to New Zealand.
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Hāhau-whenua
In a Māori tradition ascribed by John White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Hāhau-whenua is the name of the great fish caught by Māui which became the North Island of New Zealand.
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Hina (goddess)
Hina is the Eastern Polynesian variant for the given name Sina.
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Hine-nui-te-pō
Hine-nui-te-pō ("Great woman of night") is a goddess of night and death and the ruler of the underworld in Māori mythology.
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Immortality
Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death, unending existence.
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Kelp
Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor of Puerto Rican ancestry best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He co-wrote the songs for Disney's ''Moana'' soundtrack (2016) and is set to co-star in the upcoming film Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards. Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008. For this work, he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score, the show's cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show's lead role. Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was co-composer and lyricist for Bring It On: The Musical, which played on Broadway in 2012. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and Do No Harm (2013). He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). Miranda is most celebrated for writing the book, music and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its Broadway premiere in August 2015. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The ''Hamilton'' cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboards Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016. Miranda has emerged as an influential political activist, particularly in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico, for which he raised $30 million for the rescue efforts.
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Mahuika
Mahuika is a Māori fire deity.
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Makeatutara
In Māori mythology, Makeatutara is the father of Māui.
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Maui (Mangarevan mythology)
In the mythology of Mangareva, Maui hauls the land up from the sea, and ties the sun with tresses of hair.
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Maui (Tahitian mythology)
In the mythology of Tahiti, Maui was a wise man, or prophet.
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Maui (Tongan mythology)
Maui is a figure in Polynesian mythology.
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Maui's dolphin
Māui's dolphin or popoto (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui) is the world's rarest and smallest known subspecies of dolphin.
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Mauisaurus
Mauisaurus ("Maui reptile") is a genus of plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period around 77 million years ago in what is now New Zealand.
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Māori language
Māori, also known as te reo ("the language"), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of New Zealand.
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Māori mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided.
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Māui (Hawaiian mythology)
In Hawaiian religion, Māui is a culture hero and ancient chief who appears in several different genealogies.
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Miracle
A miracle is an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws.
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Moana (2016 film)
Moana is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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New Zealand fantail
The New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is a small insectivorous bird, the only species of fantail in New Zealand.
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New Zealand pigeon
The New Zealand pigeon or kereru (Maori: kererū; Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) is a bird endemic to New Zealand.
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North Island
The North Island (Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait.
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Obsidian
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock.
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Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and Sauria) or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles (marine Sauropsida), belonging to the Sauropterygia.
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Polynesian narrative
The Polynesian narrative or Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia, a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers.
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Pounamu
Pounamu refers to several types of hard, durable and highly valued nephrite jade, bowenite, or serpentinite stone found in southern New Zealand.
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Rangi and Papa
In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions).
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Rohe (mythology)
In a tradition of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands, Rohe is the wife of the demi-god Māui.
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South Island
The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.
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Swamp harrier
The swamp harrier (Circus approximans), also known as the Australasian marsh harrier, Australasian harrier, kāhu, swamp-hawk or New Zealand hawk, is a large, slim bird of prey widely distributed across Australasia.
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Tama-nui-te-rā
In Māori mythology, Tama-nui-te-rā (Tamanuiterā) is the personification of the Sun.
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Taranga (Māori mythology)
In Māori mythology, Taranga is the mother of Māui.
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Tāwhirimātea
In Māori mythology, Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms.
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Tūmatauenga
In Māori mythology, Tū or Tūmatauenga (Māori: 'Tū of the angry face') is the god of war, hunting, food cultivation, fishing and cooking.
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Te Waka a Māui
Te Waka a Māui (the canoe or vessel of Māui) is a Māori name for Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand.
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Ti'iti'i
In Samoan legend, the mythological figure Ti'iti'i appears in legends very similar to those recounting the tales of the demigod Māui, found in other island cultures.
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Tomtit
The tomtit (Petroica macrocephala) is a small passerine bird in the family Petroicidae, the Australian robins.
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Vagina
In mammals, the vagina is the elastic, muscular part of the female genital tract.
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Waka (canoe)
Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel, to large decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), also referred to as Disney Animation, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films, short films, and television specials for The Walt Disney Company.
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Whaitiri
In Māori mythology, Whaitiri is a female deity, a personification of thunder, and the grandmother of Tāwhaki and Karihi.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māui_(Māori_mythology)
