Raka-maomao or Rakamaomao, in Māori mythology, is a god of wind. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of tempests.[1] To the Waitaha tribe of the South Island, Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north.[2]
Raka-maomao is equivalent to Ra‘a (Society Islands), Raka (Cook Islands), La'a Maomao (Hawaii)[3] and Fa'atiu (Samoa).
References
edit- ^ Tregear, Edward Robert (1904). "Chapter XX. Religion and Cosmogony". The Maori Race. Wanganui: Archibald Dudingston Willis. p. 473. Retrieved 12 August 2019 – via New Zealand Electronic Text Collection.
Raka-maomao was the god of ordinary winds, as separate from Tawhiri-matea the god of tempests.
- ^ Tau, Te Maire (1 March 2017). "Ngāi Tahu - The genealogy of the land". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ Kawaharada, Dennis (1992). "Introduction to The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao". University of Hawai‘i. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
... the wind deity in other Polynesian traditions is male (Ra'a—Society Islands, Raka—Cook Islands, Raka-maomao—New Zealand).
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