Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Discover Sơn Tinh, the great Vietnamese mountain-god and one of the Four Immortals — who won the princess Mị Nương and defeated the Water God Thủy Tinh,
Discover Âu Cơ, the immortal mountain-fairy and ancestral mother of the Vietnamese — who married the dragon-lord Lạc Long Quân, bore a hundred sons, and
Discover Lạc Long Quân, the Dragon Lord of Lạc and ancestral father of the Vietnamese — the sea-dragon who slew the land’s monsters, married the fairy Âu
The Taniwha, the great water-monsters and guardian-beings of Māori legend — powerful supernatural creatures of the deep rivers, lakes, and dangerous
The Ponaturi, the malevolent sea-goblins of Māori legend — hostile, pale supernatural beings who dwell in the sea by day and come ashore by night, who are
The Patupaiarehe, the fairy-folk of Māori legend — a race of pale-skinned, fair-haired supernatural beings who dwell in the deep forests and misty
Kurangaituku, the bird-woman ogress of Māori legend — a monstrous giantess with bird-like claws who captured the young man Hatupatu and kept him in her
Tāwhaki, the great demigod-hero of Māori and Polynesian mythology — famous for ascending into the heavens to seek his celestial wife and the baskets of
Hine-tītama (the Dawn Maiden), the Māori goddess of the dawn — the radiant daughter and wife of the god Tāne who, on discovering he was also her father,
Hine-nui-te-pō (“Great Lady of the Night”), the Māori goddess of death and the underworld — once the Dawn Maiden Hine-titama, she receives all the dead