Manahune
The Menehune, or Manahune, of Polynesian legend were a forest folk whose characteristics no doubt helped to develop the belief in fairy woodsmen. In Hawaiian legendry they were a people of small stature, big-eyed, with murmurous voices; they lived in frail houses of banana leaves. Like our Patu-paiarehe, they feared the daylight, and the herculean labours, such as stone-work, which they performed by night always ceased when the dawn appeared.
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Plucky polymath, software engineer by day, dreamer of dreams by night. Longing to behold and beget beauty and love, Kōtiro is an expression of my passion for the magic of the world in which we find ourselves.
Greetings from New Zealand, yes I’m very interested in all pygmy type early cultures. I also have a question for the reader if applicable; the Waitaha folk of Aotearoa (NZ) tell of an island called Waitangi Ki Roto, believed to be in the southern Polynesian Pacific?
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