Maori Designs & Shapes
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| Hei Matau (Fish Hooks) 6 Choices The fish hook symbolizes prosperity. a major part of the Maori diet is fish. The fish were so plentiful to the Maori that the simple ownership of a fish hook meant prosperity. Today it also represents strength, determination and good health as well a providing safe journey over water. |
| | | Manaia's FREE POST The Manaia is a spiritual guardian angel, to ward off danger and protect against intruders. It acts as a provider and protector over the sky, earth and sea. The bird-like head, symbolises flight of the spirit. The three fingers are believed to represent birth, life and death, the life cycle of man, or the 3 Baskets of Knowledge (the knowledge mankind needed from the gods, to be able to live on earth). |
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| Tiki's FREE POST The Tiki is commonly known as a good luck charm. and considered a symbol of fertility, a talisman of New Zealand and the Maori people. Considered a good luck charm, and widely believed to represent the unborn human baby. In Maori culture this represents a powerful spirit for warding off bad luck. |
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