Kahui-Tipua
Also known as: Kāhui Tipua
Basic account
Bands of supernatural giants in Māori tradition: tipua of collective power.
Account
The Kāhui Tipua are a band of supernatural giants in southern Māori tradition, credited with shaping parts of the South Island landscape: including, in some accounts, the excavation of the great lakes.
Motifs
- The land is the body
- The people who came before
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What is disputed
The composition of the Kāhui Tipua and which beings belong to it differ between accounts, and the term is used with varying breadth.
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Sources
- Southern Māori oral tradition (Ngāi Tahu; earlier Waitaha and Kati Mamoe)
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