Iku

Iku is a fisherman from Rarotonga who knows the stars and discovers submerged Manihiki. After Maui raises the island, Iku disputes it with him and brings his sister Tapairu and her husband Toa to settle there.

Relations

• sibling: Tapairu
• rival: Maui the Third

Sources

• William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 71–75