Tiki
Tiki is the first man and ancestor of mankind in the Marquesas — the first figure named in the ~90-generation genealogies of Hiva, born of 'Atea and One-u'i (the sand-woman) in the pu'e tradition. With his wife Hina (Hina-tu-na-one) he gave rise to the first Marquesans, whose descendants became the founding ancestors of each mata'eina'a (tribe). In a widespread variant of the Tiki cycle (Marquesan Legends, 1930) he forms a woman out of sand and takes her to wife — the 'sand-woman tale,' the pan-Polynesian first-man/sand-woman motif (parallel to Maori Tane and Hine-ahu-one). As 'ancestor of men' he taught the Marquesans most facets of their traditional culture; he is also a trickster of the legend-cycle. The word tiki names both the first man and the carved anthropomorphic images of deified ancestors and gods central to Marquesan material culture.
Parentage
Variant accounts
- tiki-forms-his-wife-from-sand
Domains
- first man and ancestor of mankind
- culture bringing and the trickster cycle
Powers
- Fathering of the human race
- Bringing of the arts of culture to humankind
Relations
- spouse: HinaHusband of Hina (Hina-tu-na-one); together the parents of the first Marquesans.Handy 1923 — 'Tiki and his wife Hina-tu-na-one gave rise to the first Marquesans.' (primary)
- father of: HinaIn the sand-woman variant Tiki shapes Hina from sand and she is at once his creature/daughter and his wife — recorded here as the attested incestuous-origin motif of the Tiki cycle.Handy 1923 / Marquesan genealogies — in the sand-woman variant of the Tiki tale, Tiki forms a woman of sand who becomes both his offspring and his wife (the pan-Polynesian Tiki/Tane sand-woman incest motif). (primary)