Rongo

Rongo is the Rapa Nui reflex of the widespread Polynesian god Rongo/Lono. On Easter Island his role in the surviving record is genealogical: he is the son of Tangaroa, and with his father he is the divine ancestor from whom the ariki of the island, beginning with Hotu Matu'a, claimed direct descent (Métraux 1940:127).

Parentage

• Tangaroa

Domains

• ancestry

Relations

• father: Tangaroa
• ancestor of: Hotu Matu'a
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Lono
• equated with: Ro'o
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Rongo
• equated with: Ono

Sources

• Alfred Métraux, Ethnology of Easter Island (Bishop Museum Bulletin 160, 1940), p. 127