Rongo
Rapa Nui · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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
- father: TangaroaSon of Tangaroa in the royal genealogy.Métraux, Ethnology of Easter Island (1940), p. 127 (primary)
Domains
- ancestry
Relations
- father: TangaroaSon of Tangaroa in the royal genealogy.Métraux, Ethnology of Easter Island (1940), p. 127 (primary)
- ancestor of: Hotu Matu'aDivine ancestor (with Tangaroa) of the first king Hotu Matu'a.Métraux, Ethnology of Easter Island (1940), p. 127 (primary)
- 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: 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: 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)