Auahi-Turoa

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Auahitūroa
Auahitūroa is a personification of comets, and the origin of fire, in a legend of the Ngāti Awa, a Māori tribe of the eastern Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. The name can be translated 'long standing smoke', a fitting description for a comet. Auahitūroa is a son of Tama-nui-te-rā (the sun god). Tama-nui-te-rā tells Auahitūroa to take a beneficial thing to humankind in the shape of fire. Auahitūroa comes down to earth in the form of a comet, and marries Mahuika, younger sister of Hinenui-te-pō, goddess of death. The sons of Auahitūroa and Mahuika are Ngā Mānawa, the five Fire Children. Another Māori name for a comet is Ūpokoroa (long-headed one); a poetic name for fire is te tama a Ūpokoroa, (the son of Upokoroa) (Best 1982:244-245).
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Auahi-Turoa
[Polynesian] The son of the sun-god Tama Nui-Te-Ra who sent him down to earth as a coment, carrying the Seed of Fire. On earth, Auani-Turoa married the fire-goddess Mahu-ike, the Mother of Fire. They had five sons, called the Fire-Children, who bear the names of the fingers: Konui (thumb), Koroa (index finger), Mapere (middle finger), Manawa (ring finger), and Koiti (little finger).


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