Nuku-mai-tore

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In Māori mythology the Nuku-mai-tore are forest-dwelling spirits.An entry in Encyclopedia Mythica translates Nuku-mai-tore as "People of the Other World". Tura joins Whiro's canoe party, but when it enters a whirlpool he catches the overhanging boughs of a tree and lives among the Nuku-mai-tore, to whom he teaches the use of fire, the art of cooking, and the natural way of childbirth together with the ceremonies attending to the birth of a child.Beckwith 1970:502, White 1887–1891, II:8–15, 17–19