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'''Hine-nui-te-pō''' ("Great woman of [[night]]") in Māori legends, is a [[goddess]] of night and she receives the spirits of humans when they die. She is the daughter of [[Tāne|Tāne Mahuta / Tāne Tuturi]] and Hine-ahuone. It is believed among [[tangata whenua|Māori]] that the colour red in the sky comes from her. Hine-nui-te-pō shepherds the wairua/souls into the first level of [[Rarohenga]] to ready them for the next stage of their journey. Before she was Hine-nui-te-po her name was Hine-ti-tama.{{cn|date=September 2023}} Her father Tane Mahuta took her virginity; she then felt ashamed, hiding herself in internal darkness to hide from her father and became Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of the night.

== Background ==
Hine-nui-te-pō, also known as the "Great Woman of Night" is a giant goddess of death and the underworld.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2sA0BUwuHgC|title=Legends of Maui: A Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina|last=Westervelt|first=William Drake|date=1913|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=9781465527172|language=en}}</ref> Her father is [[Tāne]], the god of forests and land mammals. Her mother is a human, Hine-ahu-one was made from earth. Hine-nui-te-pō is the second child of Tāne and Hine-ahu-one. Her birth name, Tikikapakapa, was changed shortly thereafter to Hine-au-tauria.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/maoripolynesian01treggoog|title=The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary|last=Tregear|first=Edward|date=1891|publisher=Wellington, N.Z., Lyon and Blair|others=University of Michigan}}</ref>

Hine-au-tauria marries her father Tāne and bears his children. She realizes he is her father, becomes ashamed, and goes down to the underground world, known as [http://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?e=d-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4-------0-1lpm--11-haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-po--00-3-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&d=D18095&l=en Pō] ("darkness"). There, she becomes Hine-nui-te-pō, acquiring men's souls while her father Tāne tries to lead them to light.<ref name=":0" />

== Māui's encounter with Hine-nui-te-pō ==
The great hero [[Māui (mythology)|Māui]] is tricked by his father into thinking he has a chance to achieve immortality. In order to obtain this, Māui is told to enter into the goddess through her vagina. While Hine-nui-te-pō is asleep, Māui undresses himself ready to enter himself into the goddess. One of his bird friends, the [[New Zealand fantail|fantail]], warned Hinenui-te-po of the situation and woke her. As Māui turned into a worm squirming to enter the goddess, Hinenui-te-po decided to punish him, and crushed him with the [[obsidian]] teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgC0wwEACAAJ&q=alpers+maori+myths|title=Maori Myths & [and] Tribal Legends: Retold|last=Alpers|first=Antony|date=1977|publisher=Longman Paul|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Māui (Māori mythology)]]
*[[Vagina dentata]]
*B.G. Biggs, 'Maori Myths and Traditions' in [[Alexander Hare McLintock|A. H. McLintock]] (editor), ''Encyclopaedia of New Zealand'', 3 Volumes. (Government Printer: Wellington), 1966, II:447-454.

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