Rongo

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

Parentage

• parent: Ranginui
• parent: Papatūānuku

Domains

• agriculture
• peace

Powers

• Make cultivated crops grow and ripen

Epithets

• Rongo-mā-Tāne latin · Rongo-ma-Tane · cultRongo-and-Tāne; god of the kūmara and cultivated foods, and of peaceElsdon Best, Maori Religion and Mythology (secondary)

Relations

• equated with: LonoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: Ro'oReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: OnoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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)
• sibling: Haumia-tiketikeFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TāneFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TangaroaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TāwhirimāteaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: TūmatauengaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.
• sibling: WhiroFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Ranginui & Papatūānuku) per the figures' cited genealogy.

Sources

• existence: Grey, Polynesian Mythology (1855) (primary)