Hinauri’s Family Tree

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Family

• Makea-tutara(parent),Taranga(parent),Maui(sibling),Māui-pae(sibling),Māui-roto(sibling),Māui-taha(sibling),Māui-waho(sibling)— Marriage · Miraculous

  Taranga and Makea-tutara are the parents of Maui-tikitiki-a-Taranga and his four elder brothers — Māui-taha, Māui-roto, Māui-pae, and Māui-waho — as well as their sister Hinauri in Maori tradition. Taranga cast the premature Maui into the sea wrapped in her topknot, where ocean spirits nursed him back to life.

• Irawaru(spouse)— Marriage

  Hinauri married Irawaru, making him Maui's brother-in-law. After Maui transformed Irawaru into the first dog, Hinauri threw herself into the sea in grief.

Associated with

• Irawaru,Maui

  Maui stretched his brother-in-law Irawaru into the first dog after a quarrel during a fishing trip, an act of spite that drove his sister Hinauri to throw herself into the sea in grief.

• Irawaru

  After Maui transformed Irawaru into the first dog, his sister Hinauri threw herself into the sea in despair. She was carried by the ocean to distant lands where she had further adventures and marriages.