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Kurangaituku is a part-woman part-bird
supernatural being in Māori
mythology as told by the iwi (tribes) of Te
Arawa and Raukawa. Her name is sometimes...
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Zealand on the Arawa.
Legend tells of his wily
escape from the bird-woman
Kurangaituku, by
hiding inside a rock and then
leading her into a
boiling mud pool...
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benevolent half-human, half-bird
creatures who
watch over humanity.
Kurangaituku is a
supernatural being in Māori
mythology who is part-woman and part-bird...
- 16 February 2022 (2022-02-16)
Minogue and O'Leary
investigate sightings of a
Kurangaituku, a bird
woman from Māori lore, who has been
stealing objects and attacking...
- "did
Hinemoa have bi
husband energy", poem by
ranapiri in Eel Mag Transformation,
essay in The
Spinoff responding to
Whiti Hereaka's
novel Kurangaituku...
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named Kurangaituku who
spears birds with
nothing but her lips and who eats
nothing but raw food. He
steals her
riches and runs away with
Kurangaituku in...
- Axeman's Carnival. Te
Herenga Waka
University Press 2022 –
Whiti Hereaka,
Kurangaituku. ****a
Publishers 2021 –
Airini Beautrais, Bug W**** &
Other Stories. Victoria...
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Whiti Hereaka (worked on play Rewena, 2012;
finished draft of
novel Kurangaituku, 2017)
Roger Horrocks (2015) Anna
Jackson (2017) Jade Kake (emerging...
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plays have been
shortlisted for or won awards. In 2022 her book
Kurangaituku won the
prize for
fiction at the
Ockham New
Zealand Book
Awards and Bugs...
