Ranginui
Māori · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Māori primordial sky father, locked in embrace with Papatūānuku until separated by their sons.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Tangaroa: Sky and earth parents (Te Ara)Paul Meredith, Te hī ika – Māori fishing, Tangaroa, god of the sea (2012), opening genealogy (secondary)
Domains
- sky
- rain
Powers
- Weep rain and dew toward the earth
Relations
- spouse: PapatūānukuReciprocal of polynesian_papatuanuku.spouse — Primordial earth-mother locked in embrace with the sky-father Ranginui; their sons (Tāne, Tangaroa, Rongo, Tūmatauenga et al.) already record both as parents.Grey, Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna / Polynesian Mythology (1855); the Ranginui–Papatūānuku primal-embrace cosmogony separated by their sons (primary)
Sources
- existence: Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855) (primary)