Nuahine
Rapa Nui · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Nuahine, 'the old woman', is the aged woman the Rapa Nui see in the moon — their form of the Polynesian moon-goddess Hina. She belongs to the lunar lore of the island rather than to any genealogy. SOLITARY: a moon-figure named with no attested kin in the Rapa Nui record.
Domains
- moon
Relations
- equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: SinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: Ina (woman in the moon)Reflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), 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)