Tane
Marquesan · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Tane (the pan-Polynesian Tane/Kane) appears in the Marquesan high pantheon as the brother of Atea: in a Hiva Oa tradition 'Atea and Tāne are brothers, the sons of Toho' (Tohetika). Handy notes that, like 'Ono, Tane was not a major cult-god of Hiva, but he is firmly attested as one of the great gods and as Atea's brother in the cosmogonic genealogy.
Parentage
- paternal: Tohetika
Domains
- the great god Tane
Powers
- Divine brotherhood of Atea
Relations
- sibling: AteaBrother of Atea; both sons of Toho (Tohetika).Handy 1923 — 'Atea and Tāne are brothers, the sons of Toho.' (primary)
- equated with: TāneReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Tāne), 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: TāneReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Tāne), 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: TaneReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Tāne), 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: TaneReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Tāne), 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)