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A hei matau is a bone or greenstone carving in the shape of a highly stylised fish hook typical of the MÄori people of New Zealand.They represent strength, good luck and safe travel across water.egend holds that the shape of Hawke Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the fish's side on the beach. The MÄori name for the North island, Te Ika a Maui (The fish of Maui) reflects this legend. For the MÄori, the hei matau is taonga (a cultural treasure).
The Finns have something they call Sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win.The Finns translate Sisu as the Finnish spirit but it is a much more gutful word than that.s early as the 1940s, attempts were made to grasp the essence of Sisu. The Finnish newspaper Uusi Suomi reached out to its audience for their definition of sisu, and conducted a contest. Uusi-Suomi wrote: All of us somewhat know what sisu is ... [it] has for long been a topic for discussion here in Finland and abroad.