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  Tahiti Legends Marquesas - Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa, vacation packages, cruises to the Marquesas Islands French Polynesia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Atanua lamented that she and her husband could not live well without a house.
He promised Atanua that the house would be built by the next dawn.
As Oatea continued his task, Atanua cried out that the sun was beginning to lighten the sky.
www.honeymoonlegends.com /south-sea/marquesas   (460 words)

  
 Polynesia: About the Marquesas Islands
In other islands, Atea married Papa, but since Papa was already given in marriage, the Marquesan school created the new personage, Atanua, as wife for Atea.
From this couple were born the Upper-stratum and the Lower-stratum who, in turn, gave birth to Atea and Atanua.
Vatea (Atea) and his wife Atanua occur on the fiftieth generation from the Sky-father, Tiki occurs on the seventy-first generation, so that the order in sequence of Vatea and Tiki is orthodox.
www.janeresture.com /polynesia_marquesas   (3152 words)

  
 Other Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the mythology of The Marquesas Islands, Atanua is the dawn goddess.
She was the wife of Atea, and it was her miscarriage that created the seas.
In the mythology of the Marquesas Islands, Atea is the god of light and husband of Atanua.
www.ii.uj.edu.pl /~artur/enc/D.htm   (4606 words)

  
 String Figure Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The oldest reference to this figure may be in a 1980 book written by Hiroshi Noguchi.
This beautiful three dimensional string figure -- called Fa'e Papa by the islanders -- represents the legendary House of Atanua, the first woman in Marquesan mythology.
The house is located under the sea at the foot of the Atuona valley.
www.isfa.org /sfmv2n3.htm   (434 words)

  
 Laufey Regio: A newly discovered topographic rise on Venus
Laufey Regio is a 0.5 km high, elongate topographic rise, measuring 1000 by 2000 km, located within northern Navka Planitia, Venus.
It is dominated by two large volcanoes, Var and Atanua Montes, and numerous coronae with associated flow deposits.
The area has been geologically mapped, showing that large-scale edifice formation focused at Var and Atanua Montes and overlapped in time with the formation of smaller coronae.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2002JE002010.shtml   (379 words)

  
 THE WORLD DREAM BANK: VENUS: DIONE and NAVKA
On Dawn, you hop north to the Hulda Islands, a narrow (50 km wide, 250 long) crescent sheltering a lagoon with islets and reefs.
Hulda looks modest next to Atanua, but it's the submerged tip of a corona quite a bit larger than Atanua.
For on Sunday you face a long sea-passage from the Central Navkas to the North Group, and the end of your journey.
www.worlddreambank.org /V/VENDIONE.HTM   (5432 words)

  
 Jami Odell - "Cannibal Queen" by JAMIO - Artist Portfolio - Online Art Gallery
With her powerful staff and magical plants, she was master over the seas, the fish and fertility- the very essence of life on the islands.
Resurrected as "Atanua", South Pacific villagers chant her name in anticipation of morning rays, but not too loud, for the bloodlusting goddess of dawn feeds the fire with her desire for manflesh.
The bones of her offspring fuel a pit of allegory.
www.artq.net /ArtView.asp?artwork_id=NNUM54108122011531246   (281 words)

  
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In Canouan we ran into Atanua, a boat owned by the family of Xander's
We have been traveling with Atanua ever since and will probably stay
Atanua is a catamaran and they go quite a bit faster than we do so they are always
www.angelfire.com /trek/chama/Chama_s_Log_2001.wps.html   (6822 words)

  
 ATEA - Gods from Oceanic Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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According to Marquesa legend he popped up out of Chaos one day, married ATANUA and spawned the first humans.
Meanwhile, Tuamotu mythology claims he's a Sky God with an embarrassing lack of knowledge about female anatomy.
www.godchecker.com /pantheon/oceanic-mythology.php?deity=ATEA   (168 words)

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