Hina

Pan-Polynesian lunar goddess and patroness of kapa; in Hawaiian tradition a mother of Māui.

Domains

• moon
• craft kapa
• childbirth

Powers

• Ascend to dwell within the moon
• Beat out bark-cloth (kapa)

Epithets

• Hina-i-ka-malama Hawaiian · Hina-i-ka-malama · nameHina in the moonBeckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (Hina who lived in the moon) (secondary)
• Hina-i-ka-paʻi-kua Hawaiian · Hina-i-ka-pai-kua · epithetHina the kapa-beaterBeckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (Hina the tapa-beater) (secondary)

Relations

• equated with: SinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: Ina (woman in the moon)Reflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: NuahineReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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)

Sources

• existence: Westervelt, Legends of Ma-ui (1910) (primary)