Haumia-tiketike
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Haumia-tiketike is the god of all uncultivated vegetative food in Māori mythology. He is particularly associated with the starchy rhizome of the Pteridium esculentum, which became a major element of t
Haumia-tiketike is the deity associated with wild plants such as the bracken fern.
Tāne
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In Māori mythology, Tāne is the god of forests and of birds, and the son of Ranginui and Papatūānuku, the sky father and the earth mother, who used to lie in a tight embrace where their many children
A carving of Tāne-nui-a-Rangi sited at the entrance to the Auckland Zoo's forest aviary
New Zealand rainforest: the trees and birds are the children of Tāne.
Tāne Mahuta, "Lord of the Forest", in the Waipoua forest