Ua, father of Urutonga

Ua is known only genealogically, as the father of Urutonga, the woman who married Hemā and bore the heroes Tāwhaki and Karihi. He plays no independent role in the recorded narratives of the Tāwhaki cycle, and no tradition of divinity attaches to him — he is entered as a mortal ancestor of the heroic line. His name is the ordinary Māori word for rain.

Relations

• father of: UrutongaUa's daughter Urutonga married Hemā and became the mother of the heroes Tāwhaki and Karihi.'Urutonga', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urutonga), naming Ua as Urutonga's father (secondary)

Sources

• Ua is named as the father of Urutonga — the wife of Hemā and mother of Tāwhaki and Karihi — in the genealogical tradition of the Māori Tāwhaki cycle.: 'Urutonga', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urutonga), naming Ua as Urutonga's father (secondary); George Grey, Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race (London: John Murray, 1855), 'The Legend of Tawhaki' (secondary)