In
Tuamotu mythology, Vahi-vero is the son of the
demigod
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Kui and a
goblin
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woman named Rima-roa.
Kui plants
food
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trees and is also a great fisherman. The goblin woman Rima-roa robs his
garden
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; he lies in wait and seizes her and she bears him the son Vahi-vero.
Vahi-vero visits a pool from which the beautiful
Tahiti-tokerau daily emerges. Kui teaches him how to lie in wait and seize her and never let her go until she pronounces his name. Having mastered her, he finds that
Puna, king of Vavau, is his rival. He goes by way of the pool to the place where Puna guards the girl in a house with round ends, and brings her back with him, leaving her sister Huarehu in her place. Tahiti-tokerau bears to him the boy Rata. Puna comes in
shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head. Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimo ...
form to avenge himself, kills Vahi-vero and takes his wife back and makes of her eyes lights for her sister to do sennit work by and of her feet supports for the sister's work basket (Beckwith 1970:261).
See also
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Vahieroa (Tuamotu mythology) {{Short description, Mythological figure
In Tuamotu mythology, Vahieroa marries Matamata-taua or Tahiti-to'erau, and on the night of the birth of their son, the great Tuamotuan hero, Rata, the parents go fishing and are snatched away by the demon ...
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Wahieroa
In Māori mythology, Wahieroa is a son of Tāwhaki, and father of Rātā.
Tāwhaki was attacked and left for dead by two of his brothers-in-law, jealous that their wives preferred the handsome Tāwhaki to them. He was nursed back to health by his ...
- Māori
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Wahieloa In Hawaiian mythology, Wahieloa is a hero associated with the Kaha'i and Laka epics.
Variations of his name in other Polynesian languages include Wahieroa (Māori), Vahieroa (Tahiti, Tuamotus), Va'ieroa (Cook Islands), Fafieloa (Samoa), and Vahie ...
- Hawaii
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Vahieroa (Tahitian mythology) {{Short description, Mythological son of wife
In Tahitian mythology, Vahieroa is a son of Tafa'i and his wife Hina, and is born at his father's house in the Tapahi hills of Mahina in north Tahiti. He weds Maemae-a-rohi, sister of the ruling chief ...
References
* M. Beckwith, ''Hawaiian Mythology'' (University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu) 1970.
* R.D. Craig, ''Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology'' (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 317.
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