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	Tane Mahuta
		Tane is a truly breathtaking sight, and is of approximate age 1250 years.
		Tane's wisdom prevailed, and in turn each of the children struggled mightily to prise the Sky from the Earth.
		Finally it was Tane Mahuta who by thrusting with his mighty feet gradually lifted the anguished Rangi away from the agonised Papa.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/bonita/Tane.html (369 words)

	Tane
		In Polynesian mythology, Tane is the god of trees and light, and the first son of Rangi and Papa.
		Escaping to Earth, Tane became very hungry and ate a man, becoming the first cannibal.
		Upon discovering that she had married her father, Hine-nui-te-Po fled to the underworld, and began ruling there as queen.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ta/Tane-Mahuta.html (112 words)

	Waipoua
		In Māori cosmology, Tane is the son of Ranginui the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku the Earth Mother.
		Tane tore his parents apart, breaking their primal embrace, to bring light, space and air and allowing life to flourish.
		It is difficult to accurately estimate the age of Tane Mahuta.
	members.tripod.com /awanderingminstreli/waipoua.htm (885 words)

	Kiwi:Tane's Eldest Child
		Tane Mahuta created forests and birds, and humans are descended from him, while the children of Tangaroa are the fish and other sea creatures.
		One day, Tane Mahuta was walking through the forest when he noticed his children, the trees, were beginning to sicken as bugs ate them.
		Tane Mahuta asked that one of the birds should come down from the forest roof and live on the forest floor to help save his children, the trees.
	www.savethekiwi.org.nz /KiwisSavingKiwi/Tane.htm (738 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Kauri
		The largest living kauri is Tane Mahuta or "Lord of the Forest", still standing after 2,100 years in the Waipoua Forest in Northland.
		Tane Mahuta reaches 52 metres (169 ft) in height, and is estimated to contain 245 cubic metres (8,630 cub.ft) of timber.
		It was three times larger than Tane Mahuta, estimated to have a volume of 450 cub.m (16,000 cub.ft) of commercial lumber.
	www.terranature.org /kauri.htm (866 words)

	Tane Mahuta
		Tane Mahuta refers to the largest kauri tree found in New Zealand.
		Tane Mahuta has many years experience in the construction and the running of upmarket tourist lodges.
		Tane Mahuta is based in Southern Africa, however we will accept lodge development contracts worldwide.
	tane-mahuta.blogspot.com (252 words)

	Agathis australis description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tane Mahuta, currently thought to be the largest living kauri, in Waipoua Forest.
		In Maori cosmology, Tane is the son of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatuanuku the Earth Mother.
		Tane Mahuta (Maori for 'Lord of the Forest'), in Waipoua Forest Sanctuary, pictured here, is commonly claimed to be the largest.
	www.conifers.org /ar/ag/australis.htm (3600 words)

	Maori - Mythen
		Tane and his brothers looked on the gentle roundnesses of their mother.
		But Tane, one of the recent Gods, learned still like a child, because the wisdom was not still born.
		Tane Mahuta looked upward to Rangi, which was appropriate coldly, grey and dearless in the enormous spaces more for the earth, and felt compassion with the despair of its father.
	www.travallo.de /laender/aotearoua/history/maori_myths.html (830 words)

	Tane Mahuta - Waipoua Forest Trust protecting native Kauri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The world's largest rainforest tree, Tane Mahuta stands guard over Waipoua and has become an icon of New Zealand's unique natural heritage.
		At the time of Christ, Tane Mahuta was already a mature tree.
		It had seen 1000 years of history before man colonised New Zealand, the last major land mass to be inhabited by humans.
	www.waipoua.org.nz /pg_tanem.htm (77 words)

	Maori Culture - Legends
		Finally the separation was accomplished and the children of Rangi and Papa knew light for the first time and the children of Tane - the trees, birds and insects of the forest - were able to breathe, see and move.
		Tawhiri-matea, the only son to have objected to the separation, was so angered by the pain suffered by his parents and the regard with which Tane-mahuta was now held by other living things that he followed Rangi to the realm above and there begot his own offspring, the wind, rain and storms.
		Eventually, after attacking all his other brothers, Tawhiri-matea returned to the Sky whence he and his children continue to descend from time to time to plague the Earth and her occupants.
	www.uniquelynz.com /maori_legend.htm (1084 words)

	The Southern Circle, New Zealand Culture, Rituals and Plant Life, Small Farming, Maori Legends
		When Tane Mahuta, god of the Forest and Birds, separated Ranginui, the skyfather, and Papatuanuku, the earth mother, he and his brothers were horrified to see how bare and ugly their world looked.
		Tane Mahuta flung two baskets of magic into the air and a huge ball of fire burst into the world and broke time into day and night.
		She is the daughter of Tane Mahuta, god of the Forest and Birds, and Hineahuone, woman - made - from - Earth.
	www.hakoke.com /maori.html (3039 words)

	Tane's Eyebrows - The Pikao Recovery Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the beginning of time there was a great conflict between Tane Mahuta, God of the Forest, and his brother Takaroa God of the Sea.
		Takaroa was jealous of Tane Mahuta’s success in separating Ranginui, the Sky father from Papa-tu-a-nuku the Earth Mother.
		Tane Mahuta tried to end the warring between them and as a sign of peace plucked out his eyebrows and gave them to Takaroa.
	www.cityofdunedin.com /city/?page=ci_pikao_recovery (2227 words)

	Tāne Mahuta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tāne Mahuta is a giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of Northland Region, New Zealand.
		Tāne Mahuta is the most massive kauri known to stand today.
		It is 51 metres (169 feet) in height, and has a circumference of 13.8 metres (45 feet).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tane_Mahuta (192 words)

	New Zealand Tourist Attractions and Icons - Cape Reinga, Waitangi Treaty Grounds
		Mighty Tane Mahuta the world's largest living Kauri tree, is named after the Maori "god of the forest" and is estimated to be over 2000 years old.
		With a girth of 13.8 metres and height of 51.5 metres, Tane Mahuta dominates Waipuoa Forest in the
		Tane is the divinity of the life force that created forests.
	www.taitokerau.co.nz /cape_reinga_waitangi_stone_store.htm (610 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tane Mahuta grew very sad, for something was eating all the trees...
		Tane Mahuta felt it was only fair that Kiwi should be warned what would happen.
		Tane Hokahoka said, "E Tui, because you are a coward, you will wear a necklace of white feathers, and lick flowers for your food.
	www.bga.com /~pixel/kiwi.htm (566 words)

	Brian Easton » GROWTH RINGS: New Zealander of the Millennium: Tane Mahuta
		Thinking from this perspective faces us with the question of what is our relationship to the land and water, and thence to who we are, what we are, and where we are going.
		Desiree Wikaira from the Waipoua Visitors Centre and Jim agree that Tane Mahuta, in the Waipoua Forest in the Far North has the greatest volume of timber, with 244.5 cubic metres.
		Te Mahuta is a short, fat fellow at only 29.9m tall, while Tane measures 51.2m in height.
	www.eastonbh.ac.nz /?p=215 (1247 words)

	Kauri Trees
		More than 30 species are perched in the branches of Tane Mahuta alone.
		In its richness of species, Wiapoua is more akin to the tropical rainforests of the south west Pacific than it is to the temperate forests of the rest of New Zealand.
		In Maori cosmology, Tane is the sun of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatuanuku the Earth Mother.
	www.waymarker.co.uk /ml/nz/kauri.html (685 words)

	Journal of a visit to New Zealand - 27. Tane Mahuta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Further on we stop at the path leading to Tane Mahuta.
		Tane Mahuta, as a sign tells us, is the biggest and oldest living Kauri tree.
		There is a small seating area in front of the tree, where people can sit and admire it.
	home.clara.net /nhi/nzj027.htm (464 words)

	Underlying Causes of Deforestation: Aotearoa
		The banning of clearfelling as a majority practice in forestry, and the corresponding banning of the use of particularly destructive types of heavy machinery.
		The lack of an original perception of the world on the part of Maori is evident in the way many Maori now are planting pine trees in an effort to secure an income, rather than primarily looking after the land and the trees already on it.
		(the domain of Tane) Just as the tauparapara states at the beginning of this paper, it was Tane that went in search of knowledge for people to use.
	www.wrm.org.uy /deforestation/Oceania/Aotearoa.html (5224 words)

	TERRA: Champion Trees
		On the slopes of Tutamoe, above Kaihu, stood
		This awesome tree is over three times larger than Tane Mahuta—perhaps 15,997 cubic feet of timber—larger than today's greatest redwoods, and, in its day, the largest tree in the world.
		Tane Mahuta is guessed to be 2,100 years old, but likely Kairaru was over 4,000 years old when fire destroyed it in the 1880's.
	www.championtrees.org /champions/kauriNZ.htm (366 words)

	Thanksgiving to Tane
		Tane Mahuta is a tall Kauri - Agathis australis, up to 2000 years old (Salmon).
		but Tane mahuta, god and father of the forests
		Tane holds the seed of life in his hand
	www.dhushara.com /book/tane/tane.htm (332 words)

	Polynesian Mythology: The Children of Heaven and Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hence these sayings of olden time: 'It was the fierce thrusting of Tane which tore the heaven from the earth, so that they were rent apart, and darkness was made manifest, and so was the light.'
		No sooner was heaven rent from earth than the multitude of human beings were discovered whom they had begotten, and who had hitherto lain concealed between the bodies of Rangi and Papa.
		Four of his brothers having, as before stated, been made common, or articles of food, by Tu-matauenga, he assigned for each of them fitting incantations, that they might be abundant, and that he might easily obtain them.
	www.sacred-texts.com /pac/grey/grey03.htm (1883 words)

	Forest World
		In the spirituality of New Zealand forests it is tapu to remove trees without asking Tane Mahuta, god of the forests for permission.
		If something, someone, or someplace is tapu, no human can take or touch it.
		"But you must ask Tane Mahuta, god of the forest and birds, for permission.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/bonita/ForestWorld.html (122 words)

	Amazon.com: "Tane Mahuta": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SUBTROPICAL RAIN BEGAN AGAIN as I tramped along the boardwalk to photograph Te Matua Ngahere (Father of the Forest) and Tane Mahuta (Lord of the Forest).
		Driving up the northern coast, we stopped in the Waipoua Forest to visit Tane Mahuta, Lord of the Forest, the single largest living kauri tree in New Zealand.
		Symbolism: a sacred relationship Astrological Association: Saturn, Moon Divine Association: Tane Mahuta, Lord of the Forest (Maori) Historical Spotlight:...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Tane-Mahuta (528 words)

	Tane Mahuta < House swapping < Autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tane Mahuta < House swapping < Autobio < Peter Marquis-Kyle
		The tree is called Tane Mahuta, Māori for Lord of the forest.
		Click the photo to go to the previous photo.
	www.marquis-kyle.com.au /nz/000542.htm (49 words)

	Waka II - Tane Mahuta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Waka II - Tane Mahuta (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		Choose from our Selection of the finest handcrafted Maori and Polynesian designed caskets available in New Zealand.
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	www.tekaihangamaoriarts.com.cob-web.org:8888 /wakaII-tanemahuta.html (100 words)

	www.myspace.com/ryanmcphunandtherubysuns (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I got to play tamborine and you played Tane Mahuta.
		If we can't come to Tane then you bring Tane to us.
		Way to make a cold city glow Suns
	www.myspace.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ryanmcphunandtherubysuns (909 words)

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