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Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated foods, particularly sweet potato / Kumara. Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds. Tangaroa, the god of the ocean and the creatures within. (Original Father in the Main Mythology) Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and violent weather. Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food ...
Tangaroa – god of the sea; Tūmatauenga – a god of war; and; Whiro – god of darkness and evil. In Samoa, where atua means "god" in the Samoan language, [2] traditional tattooing was based on the doctrine of tutelary spirits. [3] There is also a district on the island of Upolu in Samoa called Atua. Atua or gods are also at the centre of ...
God of war, hunting, fishing and agriculture: Tāwhirimātea God of the Weather, and storms [1] Hine-ahu-one First woman: Tāne-mahuta God of forests and birds: Tangaroa God of the sea : Rongo-mā-tāne God of peace, and of cultivated plants: Haumia-tiketike God of wild food plants: Urutengangana God of the light : Ruaumoko God of Earthquakes ...
[5] [6] Matuatonga, as god of growth, was often contrasted with another atua, Matuatehe, god of decay, [7] who is identified with the figure on the rear side of the sculpture. [8] In pre-European times, the tribes around Lake Rotorua would travel to the location where Matuatonga stood on Mokoia Island each year during the planting season for ...
Staff gods (or atua rakau) are sacred objects within the cultural and spiritual practices of the Cook Islands Māori, particularly prominent on the island of Rarotonga. These objects were crafted from wood and adorned with intricate carvings and symbolic designs, combining images of gods with their human descendants.
In Sāmoa the god Tagaloa is the almighty sky-father deity, the creator of the universe. In the Marquesas Islands , the equivalent deities are Tana'oa or Taka'oa. In Rennell and Bellona Islands (Polynesian cultures in the southern Solomon Islands ) Tangagoa is a sea god who stayed on the coastal cliff of east Rennell known as Toho, and flew in ...
At least two references to him from 1891 appear in Edward Tregear's The Maori-Polynesian comparative dictionary, where he is described as "God, the Supreme Being", [12]: 106 and as a figure in Moriori genealogy, but as Tiki's descendant. [12]: 669 A third reference might be found in the same book under Ngāti Maniapoto's genealogy.
Tūmatauenga, god of war, is the ancestor of humankind. In a Te Arawa version, Tū thinks about the actions of Tāne in separating their parents, and makes snares to catch the birds, the children of Tāne, who can no longer fly free. He then makes nets, and traps the children of Tangaroa.