Karika (the Co-Founding Chief)

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Karika, remembered as a chief from Manuʻa in Samoa, is the co-founder of Rarotonga whose meeting and pact with Tangiia at sea established the two senior ariki titles of the island.

Domains

founding navigation

Powers

to help settle and divide Rarotonga

Relations

ally: Tangiia-nui (the Founding Navigator)

Sources

Te Ariki-tara-are, 'History and Traditions of Rarotonga', trans. S. Percy Smith, Journal of the Polynesian Society 8-29 (1899-1920).
Robert D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).

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