Arahuta

Maori sky-maiden, daughter of Tawhaki and the celestial Tangotango; the infant over whom her parents quarrelled, occasioning Tawhaki ascent to the heavens to recover his wife and child.

Parentage

• Tāwhaki
• Tangotango

Domains

• sky

Relations

• father: Tāwhaki
• mother: Tangotango

Sources

• George Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855), The Legend of Tawhaki
• Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. Arahuta