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== Background == Hine-nui-te-pō, also known as the "Great Woman of Night", is a giant goddess of death and the underworld.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2sA0BUwuHgC|title=Legends of Maui: A Demi God of Polynesia and of his Mother Hina|last=Westervelt|first=William Drake|date=1913|publisher=Library of Alexandria|isbn=9781465527172|language=en}}</ref> Her father is [[Tāne]], the god of forests and land mammals. Her mother Hine-ahu-one is a human, made from earth. Hine-nui-te-pō is the second child of Tāne and Hine-ahu-one. Her birth name, Tikikapakapa, was changed shortly thereafter to Hine-au-tauria.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/maoripolynesian01treggoog|title=The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary|last=Tregear|first=Edward|date=1891|publisher=Wellington, N.Z., Lyon and Blair|others=University of Michigan}}</ref> Hine-au-tauria marries her father Tāne and bears his children. She realizes he is her father, becomes ashamed, and goes down to the underground world, known as [https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/5689 Pō] ("darkness"). There, she becomes Hine-nui-te-pō, acquiring men's souls while her father Tāne tries to lead them to light.<ref name=":0" />
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