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VARIMA-TE-TAKERE

In the mythology of Mangaia, Cook Islands, 'Varima-te-takere' lives in the lowest levels of Avaiki, the underworld. She plucks off a piece from her right side and it becomes the future father of gods and men, who is called Vatea (Tregear 1891:392).

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★ E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.

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