Names for the Rainbow The names for the rainbow are aniwaniwa, atua piko, tawhanawhana, kopere, Kahukura, Haere, and Uenuku. The first of these is the one in common use. The second means simply ‘a curved atua’ (‘atua’ is a god or demon, a supernatural being). The third name means curved, arched, bow-shaped. ‘Kopere’ is taken from the Maori version of the Bible, and the word seems to have the meaning of bow attached to it, though it does not appear to be a genuine Maori word used in that sense. The last three names in the list, Kahukura, Haere and Uenuku, are the names of gods of the rainbow; depending upon its form, colouring and position, the rainbow may be a manifestation of any one of these three gods.
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Te Ao Hou, September 1964, Page 10
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129Names for the Rainbow Te Ao Hou, September 1964, Page 10
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