Talk:Ak-Moho-Alii/@comment-26869323-20160222195440/@comment-98.177.165.136-20160907044512

On the subject of Maori, berserk rages, and sharks, there is a very famous Maori legend of a were-shark monster, Nanaue the Shark-man, which has in the modern day inspired the comic book villain King Shark among other things. He was the son of the aforementioned shark god and a mortal woman, born with a shark mouth mark on his back. His father warned his mother if Nanaue was to live peacefully in human society, then he was never to consume meat. However, this taboo was disregarded by his maternal grandfather, and so Nanaue would transform into a shark and enter into a beastial state of mind whenever he dived into water. As he grew up, he feasted first on local fish supplied, then his fellow men. Finally, he was found out and killed, for which his father cursed the guilty village. I'm guessing this shark wesen has taken a few references from the story of Nanaue