Hine-nui-te-pō

Māori goddess of night and death; once Hine-tītama, daughter and wife of Tāne, who fled to the underworld.

Parentage

• Tāne

Domains

• death
• underworld

Powers

• Receive and guide the spirits of the dead
• Crush intruders between her obsidian thighs
• Fix death upon humankind

Epithets

• Hine-tītama

Sources

• Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855)