Moana 2
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| Primary Audience: | Family |
| Genre: | Animation Family Adventure Musical Comedy Sequel 3D |
| Length: | 1 hr. 40 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2024 |
| USA Release: |
November 27, 2024 (wide release) |
An underworld goddess named MATANGI is a character in this film. Apparently “matangi” or “matagi” is a word for breeze or wind in Oceania.
Note: However, there is a false goddess of the same name in Hindu polytheism who is worshiped. “She is one of the Mahavidyas, ten Tantric goddesses and an aspect of the Hindu Divine Mother.” She is said to be a very aggressive goddess. Supposedly, she “governs speech, music, knowledge and the arts.”
A demigod (demi-god) named Māui (culture hero and trickster) appears in Polynesian and Maori polytheism mythology.
In Polynesian cultures it is said “very rarely was Māui actually worshipped, being less of a deity (Demigod) and more of a folk hero.”
About idolatry and false gods in the Bible
Moana’s dead paternal grandmother returns as a manta ray spirit
| Featuring |
Dwayne Johnson … Maui (voice) Auli'i Cravalho … Moana (voice) Alan Tudyk … Hei Hei (voice), pet rooster Nicole Scherzinger … Sina (voice), Moana’s mother and Chieftess of Motunui Rachel House … Gramma Tala (voice) Temuera Morrison … Chief Tui (voice) See all » |
| Director |
David G. Derrick Jr. |
| Producer |
Christina Chen Yvett Merino See all » |
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Three years after the events of the first film, Moana receives an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors and forms her own crew, reuniting with her friend, the demigod Maui. As they journey to the far seas of Oceania to break the god Nalo's curse on the hidden island of Motufetu, which once connected the people of the ocean, they confront old and new foes, including the Kakamora and underworld goddess Matangi.
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