Raka

Lord of the winds, fifth child of the primordial mother Vari-ma-te-takere (Gill 1876), who gave him the great basket of winds and the knowledge of useful inventions. Named in the prose of mangaian_vari_ma_te_takere; authored here with the parental link to Vari.

Parentage

• Vari-ma-te-takere

Domains

• lord of the winds

Powers

• hold and loose the winds from the great basket

Relations

• sibling: Vatea

Sources

• William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), Ch. I Creation, pp. 3-9
• Roland B. Dixon, Oceanic Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, Vol. IX, 1916), pp. 11-13