Ina (woman in the moon)

Ina, eldest daughter of Kui-the-Blind, marries Marama and lives in the moon. She makes bright cloth seen as clouds. Her cloth-weighting stones cause thunder when thrown aside, and gathered cloth flashes as lightning.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Kui-the-Blind (Gill’s four Inas)

  deity by descent in this account.

  • mother: Kui-the-BlindWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45, 77, 95 (primary)
  William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45, 77, 95 (primary)

Names and tradition associations

• Ina (daughter of Ngaetua) Mangaian · resolvedWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 95 (primary)
• Ina-moe-aitu Mangaian · resolvedWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45,77,95 (primary)

Variant accounts

• Different Ina portrayalsGill distinguishes Ina, daughter of Ngaetua, from Kui’s four daughters. The lunar Ina and Ina-moe-aitu occur in different narratives; their relationship is not resolved by sharing a name.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45, 77, 95 (primary)
• source review correctionGill distinguishes Kui’s daughters; the woman in the moon and Ina-moe-aitu are not made identical by their shared first name.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46,77,95 (primary)
• source review correctionGill’s lunar story gives Kui as mother and Marama as husband; thunder comes from stones, not a tapa mallet. The eel narrative belongs to the separately named Ina-moe-aitu.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46 (primary)
• source review correctionThe lunar and eel narratives are distinct accounts of Kui’s daughters, not successive events in one life.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46,77 (primary)
• source review correctionThe coconut claim belongs to Ina-moe-aitu, and Gill attributes thunder to cloth-weighting stones rather than the mallet.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46,77 (primary)
• source review correctionThe coconut narrative belongs to the separately named Ina-moe-aitu.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46,77 (primary)
• source review correctionGill describes cloth, stones, oven leaves and coconut-branch tongs; the thunder-making mallet was incorrectly inferred.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46 (primary)
• source review correctionThe lover relationship with Tuna belongs to Ina-moe-aitu, the separately named daughter in Gill’s coconut narrative.William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46,77 (primary)

Domains

• the moon
• tapa and barkcloth

Powers

• Make cloud cloth, thunder and lightning

Relations

• equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: SinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• equated with: NuahineReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• spouse: MaramaWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45 (primary)
• sibling: Ina-moe-aituWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45,77,95 (primary)

Sources

• Ina, eldest daughter of Kui-the-Blind, marries Marama and lives in the moon. She makes bright cloth seen as clouds. Her cloth-weighting stones cause thunder when thrown aside, and gathered cloth flashes as lightning.: William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 45–46 (primary)