Rohe

Wife of Maui in the Moriori and rare Maori recensions, afterward an atua of night and death. Maui swapped faces with her against her will out of jealousy of her beauty; she fled to the underworld. The registry Maui entry flags her as a pending spouse-entry.

Domains

• death and rebirth

Relations

• spouse: Māui-tikitiki-a-TarangaWife of Maui in the Moriori and rare Maori recension; mistreated by the face-swap, she departed to the underworld.Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. Rohe (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Tregear, The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (1891), s.v. Rohe (secondary); Shand, The Moriori People (Journal of the Polynesian Society), Maui-and-Rohe tradition (secondary)