  We review the literature for perceptions of meteors in the Maori cultures of
New Zealand. We examine representations of meteors in religion, story, and
ceremony. We find that meteors are sometimes personified as gods or children,
or are seen as omens of death and destruction. The stories we found highlight
the broad perception of meteors found throughout the Maori culture and
demonstrate that some early scholars conflated the terms comet and meteor.
