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Hine-nui-te-pō's life
Hine-nui-te-pō, also known as the "Great Woman of Night" is a giant goddess of death and the underworld. Her father is Tāne, the god of peace and beauty. Her mother is a human, Hine-ahu-one was made from earth. Hine-nui-te-pō is the second child of Tāne and Hine-ahu-one. Her name then, Tikikapakapa, then shortly after changed to Hine-au-tauria. Incest being "taboo" in greek mythology, is also made normal in polynesian mythology as well. Hine-au-tauria marries, Tāne and bears his children. She realizes he is her father. becomes ashamed, and goes down to the underground world, known as Pō. There she becomes Hine-nui-te-pō, acquiring men's souls while her father Tāne tries to lead them to light.

Māui's Encounter with Hine-nui-te-pō
The great demi-god, Māui is tricked by his father into thinking he has a chance into immortality. In order to achieve such success, Māui must enter into the goddess through her vagina. While Hine-nui-te-pō is asleep, Māui undresses himself ready to enter himself into the goddess. e of his bird friends, the Pīwakawaka, laughed at the ridiculousness of the situation, seeing Māui turned into a worm squirming to enter the goddess, and woke her. To punish the demi-god, she crushed him with the obsidian teeth in her vagina; Māui was the first man to die (Alpers 1964:70).