Hine-nui-te-pō rules over Pō, the dark realm of the dead where all mortal souls ultimately journey in Maori tradition.
Maui tricked his wife Rohe into exchanging faces — he took her beauty and left her his ugly visage, driving Rohe to flee in shame to Pō, the underworld, where she became a figure among the dead.
Maui shapeshifted into a pigeon to spy on his mother Taranga as she descended each dawn into Pō, the underworld realm of the dead, discovering the entrance to the world below.
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