According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

According to a 2001 survey on the health of the Māori Language, the number of very fluent adult speakers was about 9 % of the Māori population, or 29, 000 adults.

According to legend, Māori came to New Zealand from the mythical Hawaiki.

According to Māori mythology, the North and South Islands of New Zealand arose through the actions of the demigod Māui.

According to official census figures, Hamilton's population is 65. 3 % Pākehā / European, 19. 9 % Māori, 10. 6 % Asian, 4. 2 % Pacific Peoples and 1. 5 % Middle Eastern, Latin American and African.

According to Best, the belief in mākutu was ' universal and prominent in pre-European times ' and acted as ' a disciplinary force in the old days ; it was one of the substitutes for civil law that preserved order in a Māori community.

According to Māori mythology, the sounds are the prows of the sunken waka ( canoe ) of Aoraki.

According to the Waitangi Tribunal, Māori recognised that the British intention was to seize the greater part of their land for European settlement through a policy of confiscation and saw that their best hope of keeping their homes, lands and status lay in taking up arms.

According to Māori legend the Karioi was a jilted Māori Princess who, upon discovering that love was lost, lay down and rests until this day.

According to the Waitangi Tribunal, the arrests were invalid: the land was not Crown land and therefore it was the army, not Māori, who were trespassing.

According to Māori norms, this warranted a violent retribution.

According to Māori mythology, the sun god, Tama-nui-te-rā, had two wives, the Summer Maid, Hine-raumati, and the Winter Maid, Hine-takurua.

According to Māori mythology, Taranaki once resided in the middle of the North Island, with all the other New Zealand volcanoes.

According to Māori legend Lake Manapouri was created by the tears of two sisters, Moturua and Koronae, who were daughters of an old chief in the region.

According to the 2006 Census, the Waiuku population's ethic origin was 75. 6 % European ; 17. 7 % Māori ; 3. 6 % Pacific peoples ; 3. 6 % Asian ; 0. 3 % Middle Eastern / Latin American / African ; and 11. 0 % other ethnicity.

According to the 2006 census, 3. 6 % of people in Waiuku speak Māori, compared with 2. 7 % of people for all of Auckland Region.

According to Tamihere, traditional structures such as iwi do not reflect the reality of modern Māori life, and have proven inadequate for solving today's problems.

According to Tamihere, too many Māori " blam others for our failure ", and Māori need to " take responsibility for our own actions.

According to Māori tradition, the name Kaipara had its origins back in the 15th century when the Arawa chief, Kahumatamomoe, travelled to the Kaipara to visit his nephew at Pouto.

According to Māori legend, a giant fish was hooked and pulled to the surface by Polynesian navigator Maui and the fish turned into land which became the North Island.

According to Herries Beattie an old Māori name for Port Chalmers was ' Potakere ' or ' Pou-takere ' which may have indicated the hill where the tuahu, or altar, was sited.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

* " The Hound of Heaven " is the title of the fifth chapter in Robert L. Short's 1965 book The Gospel According to Peanuts where he describes Snoopy as a " little Christ " carrying out " Christ's ambivalent work of humbling the exalted and exalting the humble.

According to the Book of the Dead, departed souls would undergo a literal journey to reach Heaven, along the way to which there could exist hazards and other entities attempting to deny the reaching of Heaven.

According to the parable illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven.

" According to this belief, these purposes were explained and discussed in " councils in heaven ," followed by the War in Heaven where Satan rebelled against the plan of Heavenly Father.

According to some Islamic scholars, the rock is the spot from which Muhammad ascended to Heaven accompanied by the angel Gabriel.

* According to Roman Catholic tradition the Blessed Virgin Mary was crowned as Queen of Heaven after her assumption into heaven.

According to Norman, the record company dropped several Christian songs, including " Butterfly ," " If God Is My Father ," " Kulderachna ", and " I Hope I'll See You In Heaven ", in favor of more lightweight love songs like " Fly, Fly, Fly ," the album's opening track ", and " Christmastime ', both previously released as singles.

According to one legend, the goddess Durga created an army to fight against the forces of the demon-king Mahishasur, who was terrorizing Heaven and Earth.

According to Hindu scriptures, Yama's divine assistant Lord Chitragupta maintains a record of the individual deeds of every living being in the world, and based on the complete audit of his deeds, dispatches the soul of the deceased either to Svarga ( Heaven ) or to the various Narakas according to the nature of their sins.

* Mark Twain ( himself a Deist ) argued against what he saw as the petty God many followed in a posthumously published book, The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood.

According to this book, Hebrew is the language of Heaven, and was originally spoken by all creatures in the Garden, animals and man, however the animals lost their power of speech when Adam and Eve were expelled.

According to " The Ascension of Moses " ( Chapter IV-Aggadah-The Legend of The Jews-By Louis Ginzberg ) Samael is also mentioned as being in 7th Heaven:

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

According to reviews of the 1992 book, Heaven on Earth – Dispatches from America ’ s Spiritual Frontier, author and reporter Michael D ' Antonio found the MIU physics department to be teaching theories that he believed were " dead wrong " charged that they had taken Transcendental Meditation " into a grandiose narcissistic dream, a form of intellectual bondage, that they call enlightenment ".

* According to Al-Ghazali the dwellers of Heaven will exist eternally in a state of being age 33.

According to the budoji ( 1953 ), Hwanin is the grandson of Hwang-gung 황궁 ( 黃穹 ), one of the Four Men of Heaven and considered a direct ancestor of the Korean people.

According to the legend, Ceres will kill the entire Mikage family for revenge upon stealing her hagoromo / celestial robe, thus preventing her returning home to Heaven, so Aya's family attempts to kill her.

According to Demon: The Fallen, the War in Heaven began when an angel named Ahrimal foresaw a disaster in the future-a disaster which God had either directly orchestrated or would allow to happen.

According to Schneider, the editing for Days of Heaven took so long that " Brooks cast Gere, shot, edited and released for Mr. Goodbar while Malick was still editing ".

According to Mercury, Hathaway's final recording, included on that album, was " You Are My Heaven ".

According to Johannes Lydus the Etruscans called him Heaven.

According to Lindley, that “ Henry VII ’ s will declares his trust in ...‘ Aungels, Archaungels, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostels, Evangelists, Martirs, Confessours and Virgyns ’” is critical to understanding his motivation in building the chapel: “ Henry ’ s belief in the efficacy of ‘ mediacions and prayers ’ in his progress through purgatory is crucial to his purpose .” That is to say, he built the chapel and adorned it with numerous sculptures of important religious figures in part to ensure his acceptance into Heaven.