Arts
Myths
Sea Monsters
- Narakihau -
- Parata - Imaginary being that swallows ships in the ocean. Can be controlled by tohunga.
Tangaroa - sea guardian
Tahirinatea - wind guardian
Waitaha - these are the penguinoids who lived on Kahawaiti. When elderly penguinoids die, they are said to join them.
Have a lively theater scene, which doesn’t observe the third wall because the audience is rowdy.
They love speeches.
They love to sing, but other races consider their singing as squawking.
Arts include water painting (dyeing water so that it creates pretty patterns), underwater sculpture, water fountain art, pebble painting, seashell painting, water drop art, and in the south, ice marquetry and ice sculptures.
They honor musicians and singers of every type (2/4/12).*
Music
- Arponica - like ethereal church bells, like rubbing the rim of glasses with a wet finger.
- Neinei/ water flute - each flute, made from neinei wood, is filled with water and is joined together like a panflute.
- Pahu drums - water drums made from hollowed tree trunks (the water part from 11/7/09)*
- Putara - conch shell. The bigger it is, the deeper the sound. (11/16/09)*
- Sea organ - Organs under the coastal walkways that are sounded by the pounding of waves. They create a soothing sound, like fog horns. (11/7/09)*
- Toheroa shell - like a conch shell.
- Waipere bells (water bell) - Water xylophone with tubes filled with water and hit with a mallet by humans, but pecked at by Kaiteri. Xylophones are wood and glockenspiels are metallic, but I picture these are plastic-like tubes (11/7/09)*
- Waipuoru, shortened to Waiporu (water sound)- Waterphone, or water inside rods that can be played with mallets, hands, or bows. Kaiteri use their flippers like bows to play. Eerie to human ears, like whale calls (11/7/09)*
- Water whistle
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Society*Date of discovery.