māhū
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thumb|200px|Papa Moe (Mysterious Water), an oil painting by the Westerner, Paul Gauguin, from 1893. It depicts a in Tahiti drinking from a waterfall. ''''''' in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are people who embody both male and female spirit. They have traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture, similar to Tongan ' and Samoan ''''. The terms “third gender” and “in the middle” have been used to help explain māhū in the English language.
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thumb|200px|Papa Moe (Mysterious Water), an oil painting by the Westerner, Paul Gauguin, from 1893. It depicts a in Tahiti drinking from a waterfall. ''''''' in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are people who embody both male and female spirit. They have traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture, similar to Tongan ' and Samoan ''''. The terms “third gender” and “in the middle” have been used to help explain māhū in the English language.
According to present-day kumu hula Kaua'i Iki:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “māhū” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.