Inaporari
Manihiki · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Inaporari is Maui’s blind grandmother in Avaiki. He restores her sight with nono fruit; she directs him to Tangaroa’s fire. The passage does not identify which parent connects her to Maui.
Relations
- grandchild: Maui the ThirdWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 65–67 (primary)
Sources
- Inaporari is Maui’s blind grandmother in Avaiki. He restores her sight with nono fruit; she directs him to Tangaroa’s fire. The passage does not identify which parent connects her to Maui.: William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 65–67 (primary)