Maui-tiki-tiki

Polynesian legendary figure

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In Oceanic literature: Polynesia and Micronesia
…that of the trickster figure Maui-tiki-tiki, who was a fisherman of the islands and who discovered fire. He can be recognized, on the fringes of the Polynesian area, as the god of the first fruits of the yam harvest. He was sometimes revered under a symbolic manifestation or sometimes as…
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