{"id":21521,"date":"2022-07-31T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21521"},"modified":"2022-07-31T21:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T21:39:22","slug":"hine-nui-te-po","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/hine-nui-te-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Hine Nui Te Po"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTahitian Wind Mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tahitiheritage.pf\/legende-hine-nui-te-po\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a> Polynesian woman, the legendary hero Maui confronts the goddess of death, the fearsome Hine Nui Te Po.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Hine Nui Te Po\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/tahitian-mythology-of-the-wind\/hine-nui-te-po\/#Hine-Nui-Te-Po-la-deesse-de-la-mort\" >Hine Nui Te Po, the Goddess of Death<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hine-Nui-Te-Po-la-deesse-de-la-mort\"><\/span>Hine Nui Te Po, the Goddess of Death<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Hine Nui Te Po, was hideous, she was the goddess of death, the last of our misfortunes! It was especially his mouth that was horrible. She had black, hard, sharp, terrible teeth. When you see her, you quickly realize that it was time to collect her will.<\/p>\n<p>One day, the brave Maui, who braked the course of the sun, was quite surprised to discover his mother with gray hair.<br \/>\u201cWhen those gray hairs are all white, you can prepare my funeral well,\u201d said his mother.<br \/>\u2013 How to prevent that? replied the child with a big heart.<br \/>\u2013 It&#039;s impossible: until now, no one has been able to defeat the great ancestor, Hine Nui Te Po. The one who has always had the last word.<\/p>\n<p>Maui flexed his biceps and talked about a number of his wonderful feats. His papa, tormented by a few bad omens, wanted to hold him back, but to hell with the dreams! To keep him company, the valiant hero took care to take a few birds with him. They borrowed the milky voice. How long was the road leading to the celestial house!<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, the goddess was sleeping. Maui said he was going to slip inside the Goddess of Death.<br \/>\u201cBe careful not to speak, or to laugh, before seeing me revealed by his mouth!<\/p>\n<p>Among his friends was a certain bird who had precisely the brains of a bird. When our boy engulfed himself in his ancestor, everyone heard a clear and mocking laughter: that of the bird which let its heart speak. Hine Nui Te Po woke with a start and crushed the hero&#039;s head with a sharp blow: thus perished the brave Maui.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#039;t tried to kill death since...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie Tahitienne du Vent Wiki Dans cette l\u00e9gende polyn\u00e9sienne, le h\u00e9ros l\u00e9gendaire Maui affronte la d\u00e9esse de la mort, la &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9989,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21528,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21521\/revisions\/21528"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}