Haungaroa

Haungaroa

In Māori mythology, Haungaroa is the daughter of Manaia and Kuiwai in the legend of the curse of Manaia.

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*R.D. Craig, "Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology" (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 54.


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