Explore Mythology of the Polynesian islands
According to the Maori people of New Zealand, Rangi was the Sky Father and his wife was the ...
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Tangaroa was one of the children of the Sky Father, Rangi, and Mother Earth,Papa. He was the ...
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Tawhiri was very angry with his brothers. They disagreed about whether their parents, Rangi ...
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Rona was the daughter of the sea god Tangaroa. She was the Tide Controller. One night she ...
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According to the Maori people of New Zealand, Rangi was the Sky Father and his wife was the ...
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Pele is a fire goddess according to the people of Hawaii. She is a savage and wrathful divinity ...
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Haumea was the goddess of childbirth in Hawaiian mythology. One of her children was the volcano ...
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Maui was a hero of Polynesian mythology. For Maui and his mother the days were too short. For ...
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Makemake was the creator of humanity and the god of fertility in the mythology of the South ...
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lights
of the aurora come in different colors, depending on the energy of the
particles that produce the aurora?
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magnetic field has reversed
its orientation irregularly many times over Earth’s history?
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AaxAa : Hawaiian name for a type of lava flow with a surface that is broken into rough angular fragments which develop during cooling and loss of gas from pahoehoe flows.
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Research Highlights
Scientists have learned that microbes that live in the soil, like fungi and bacteria, don't produce more carbon dioxide when the climate is warmer. In fact, at first these microbes will produce more carbon...
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