This is a list of
Māori deities, known in
Māori as .
Major departmental deities
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Haumiatiketike, the god of uncultivated food, particularly
bracken fern.
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Papatūānuku
In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions). In some South Island dialects, Rangi is called Raki or Ra ...
, the primordial
earth mother
A mother goddess is a goddess who represents a personified deification of motherhood, fertility goddess, fertility, creation, destruction, or the earth goddess who embodies the bounty of the earth or nature. When equated with the earth or the ...
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Ranginui, the primordial
sky father.
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Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated foods, particularly
sweet potato
The sweet potato or sweetpotato (''Ipomoea batatas'') is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the Convolvulus, bindweed or morning glory family (biology), family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting tuberous roots are used as a r ...
.
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Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds.
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Tangaroa, the god of the Ocean and the creatures within.
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Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and violent weather.
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Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food cultivation.
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Whiro, the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil and death.
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Aituā, the god of death, happiness, and misfortune.
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Ao, a personification of light.
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Auahitūroa, the personification of comets, and the origin of the fire.
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Haere, several personifications of the rainbow.
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Ikatere, a fish god and father of all sea creatures.
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Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest.
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Kahukura, a war god who appears as the upper bow of a
double rainbow.
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Kiwa, one of several divine guardians of the ocean.
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Makeatutara, the father of Māui and guardian of the underworld.
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Maru, the god of freshwater, southern god of war.
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Mataaho, a God of earthquakes and volcanoes from the
Tāmaki Makaurau Region (Auckland).
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Māui, a demigod, culture hero, and
trickster.
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Ngahue / Kahue, the god or discoverer of , the Poutini is his guardian.
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Pūhaorangi
According to Māori mythology, Pūhaorangi is a celestial being who descended from the heavens to sleep with the beautiful maiden Te Kuraimonoa. From this union came the revered ancestor Ohomairangi.Paul Tapsell. 'Te Arawa', Te Ara - the Encycloped ...
, a celestial being who descended from the heavens to sleep with the beautiful maiden Te Kuraimonoa.
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Punga / Hairi, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things.
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Rehua
In Māori mythology, Rehua is a very sacred personage, who lives in Te Putahi-nui-o-Rehua in Rangi-tuarea, the tenth and highest of the heavens in some versions of Māori lore. Rehua is identified with certain stars. To the Tūhoe people of t ...
, the star god with the power of healing.
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Rongomai In Māori mythology, Rongomai refers to several entities:
* a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand as she went to tell Ngātoro-i-rangi that he had been cursed by Manaia.
* a being in whale form which attacke ...
, the name of a number of separate beings.
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Rongo, the god of
crops
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and peace
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Ruaumoko, the god of volcanoes, earthquakes, and seasons.
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Tamanuiterā, the personification of the
sun.
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Tane-rore In Maori mythology, Tane-Rore is the personification of shimmering air as he performs a ''haka'' for his mother Hine-raumati.
Family
Tama-nui-te-ra had two wives, Hine-takurua and Hine-raumati. The child of Tama-nui-te-ra and Hine-raumati, Tane ...
, the personification of shimmering air.
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Tāwhaki, a semi-supernatural being associated with thunder and lightning.
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Te Uira, the personification of lightning.
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Tiki, the first human, but sometimes is a child of Rangi and Papa, and creates the first human.
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Tinirau, a guardian of fish.
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Tūtewehiwehi, the father of all reptiles.
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Uenuku, a god of the rainbow, associated with war. Also a deified ancestor.
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Urutengangana
Urutengangana is the god of light in Māori mythology. He is the firstborn of the children of the primordial parents, Ranginui the Sky father and Papatūānuku the Earth mother.
Also known as The Gleaming One, a personification of light, Ur ...
, the god of the light.
Female Atua
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Ārohirohi
In Māori mythology, Ārohirohi is the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat, and is the wife of Tama-nui-te-rā (the Sun).
She created Mārikoriko
In a Māori legend attributed by ethnographer John White to the Ngāti Hau tribe, Mārikoriko ...
, the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat.
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Hina, sister, or uncommonly, wife of Māui, associated with the moon.
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Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty.
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Hinehōaka, the goddess of sandstone, the Whatipū is her guardian.
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Hinenuitepō, the goddess of night and death, and ruler of the underworld.
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Hinepūkohurangi, the goddess of the mist
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Ikaroa, the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the
Milky Way.
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Kui, the chthonic demigod.
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Mahuika, the goddess of fire.
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Moekahu, a lesser known goddess (or god) of
Tūhoe whose form was of a dog (), and a sibling of Haere.
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Rohe, the goddess of the spirit world.
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Tangotango, a celestial woman who fell in love with the great hero Tāwhaki and came to earth to become his wife.
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Tūāwhiorangi, the wife of Kahukura who manifests as the lower bow during a double rainbow.
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Whaitiri, the personification of thunder.
See also
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Family tree of the Māori gods
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Māori mythology
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are two major categories into which the remote oral history of New Zealand's Māori may be divided. Māori myths concern fantastic tales relating to the origins of what was the observable world for the pr ...
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