Umu
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Umu may refer to:
- A variety of earth ovenEarth ovenAn earth oven or cooking pit is one of the most simple and long-used cooking structures . At its simplest, an earth oven is simply a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food...
s in Polynesia, including:- Māori umu tī, used to cook Cordyline australis and other varieties of Cordyline with similar large tap roots.
- Māori hāngiHangiHāngi is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven still used for special occasions.To "lay a hāngi" or "put down a hāngi" involves digging a pit in the ground, heating stones in the pit with a large fire, placing baskets of food on top of the...
, also called umu, especially in older texts
- (u)mu, the Class I singular noun class in the Kinyarwanda languageKinyarwanda languageKinyarwanda , is a dialect of the Rwanda-Rundi language spoken by some 12 million people in Rwanda, where it is the official language, and adjacent parts of southern Uganda...
- Umu OmaUmu OmaUmu Oma is a village in southeastern Nigeria near the city of Owerri....
, a village in southeastern Nigeria - Willaq UmuWillaq UmuThe Willaq Umu were the High Priests of the Sun in the Inca Empire. They were usually the brothers of the Sapa Inca , and most likely the second most powerful person in the entire empire. This office was created during the reign of Pachakuti...
, High Priests of the Sun in the Inca Empire