Ro'o
Tahitian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ro'o is the Society-Islands Rongo/Lono — one of the four great gods, the god of the agricultural produce and the weather (Ellis), and the orator and messenger of the gods, especially of Tāne (Henry). He is invoked for the breadfruit harvest and the favourable seasons, and as the god of 'report' (ro'o) he is the herald of the pantheon. He is to be distinguished from the mortal fisherman Ro'o of the Ruahatu deluge, a mere homonym. Authored as a son/handiwork of Ta'aroa and brother of Tāne, Tū and 'Oro.
Parentage
- shaper progenitor: Ta'aroa
Domains
- agriculture and harvest
- weather
- oratory and divine messengership
- peace
Powers
- Grant the breadfruit harvest and the fruits of the soil
- Send and stay the weather
- Bear the messages and oratory of the gods
Relations
- child: Ta'aroaReciprocal of tahitian_taaroa.parent — Ro'o is shaped/begotten by Ta'aroa.Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928): Ro'o among the great gods shaped at Ta'aroa's creation (primary)
- sibling: TāneReciprocal of tahitian_tane.sibling — fellow great-god of the one creation; Ro'o is Tāne's herald.Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928): Tāne, Tū and Ro'o among the great gods shaped together at Ta'aroa's creation (primary)
- sibling: TūReciprocal of tahitian_tu.sibling — fellow great-god of the one creation.Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928): Tāne, Tū and Ro'o among the great gods shaped together at Ta'aroa's creation (primary)
- sibling: 'OroReciprocal of tahitian_oro.sibling — half-brother as a son of Ta'aroa.Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928): 'Oro reckoned among the sons of Ta'aroa with the elder great gods (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: 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: 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)