Papa
Mangaian · deity · primordial · deity
Earth-mother of Mangaia, wife of Vatea (Gill 1876). Gill gives her parents as Timatekore ('Nothing-more') and Tamaiti-ngava-ringavari ('the soft-bodied') of the lower Avaiki — cited here, not authored as stubs. The rule that she could not eat with her first-born underlies Rongo's precedence over Tangaroa.
Children
Domains
- earth and foundation
- motherhood of the gods
Powers
- bear the great gods of Mangaia
Relations
- spouse: Vatea
- mother of: Tangaroa
- mother of: Rongo
- mother of: Tane
- mother of: Tangiia
- mother of: Tonga-iti
- equated with: Papatūānuku