How Maui defied the Goddess of Death / Peter Gossage.

By:

Gossage, Peter, 1946-2016

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Reed, 2005.Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1869485742

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DDC classification:

398.20993 22

Summary: The story of how Maui wonders what it would be like to live forever. He enters the Goddess of Death and discovers stars, heavens and the gods. Missing his people, he is sent home by the highest god, Rehua, who gives him the special gift of being able to transform himself.

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Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 398.2 GOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25041214

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Originally published: Lansdowne Press, 1985.

The story of how Maui wonders what it would be like to live forever. He enters the Goddess of Death and discovers stars, heavens and the gods. Missing his people, he is sent home by the highest god, Rehua, who gives him the special gift of being able to transform himself.