Goddess

CREATIVE WRITING CLASS

task - 2mins tell your life story one interesting thing and re-write your partners story under 30words include one of the elements… water, earth, fire, and air.
Semira - Just a small town girl cruising on the bumpy roads of life. Moving to Auckland with the motivation and support of her self strength lifting the strengths of others around her.

WOMEN’S FIRSTS - note taking

Hinenuitepo
- Maori/New Zealand
- goddess of Death (before she was the goddess of Dawn)
- fled the world of light and into darkness
- mother to all who have died
- Mauri the trickster over came death by entering inside Hinenuitepo to eat away her heart and crawl out her mouth
- she awoke closed her legs and crushed him
- only death can enter

Pele- Hawaii
- goddess of Volcanoes/Fire
- one of 14 children
- domestic problems (her sister was the goddess of the Sea and Pele seduced her sisters husband and tried to hie from her)
- tutu Pele (madam Pele - respect)
- physical appearance… tall beautiful or old woman accompanied with a white dog… when she is angry she is covered in flames
- known for her passion, anger and jealousy

Nafanua
- Samoa
- goddess of War
- born as a blood clot (abortion or miscarriage)
- father is half man / half eel
- mother is a pair of siamese twins
- they buried Nafanua in the ground and let her grow as a goddess
- she lived in the underworld
- people being enslaved (forced to climb a coconut tree upside down)
- “please save us from this humiliation”
- she killed everyone… a blood bath
- preachified of european people and bringing their God (Jesus)

task - create a response to one of the Goddesses

 Hinenuitepo

PROTECT YOUR HEART,

This is the idea that the Goddess Hinenuitepo conveys.  Hinenuitepo is a strong and a powerful Goddess even though in her myths shes a dark goddess. But I see her as a female who protect her self she will not easily tricked.