Rongo

Māori god of cultivated food (especially kūmara) and of peace.

Parentage

• Ranginui
• Papatūānuku

Domains

• agriculture
• peace

Powers

• Make cultivated crops grow and ripen

Epithets

• Rongo-mā-Tāne

Relations

• equated with: Lono
• equated with: Ro'o
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Ono
• sibling: Haumia-tiketike
• sibling: Tāne
• sibling: Tangaroa
• sibling: Tāwhirimātea
• sibling: Tūmatauenga
• sibling: Whiro

Sources

• Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855)