Hina

Entered as a deity (the moon/tapa figure). Attestation note: Hina is present in the Tongan recension as the woman-in-the-moon (beating tapa; watcher over the fire-walkers, per Westervelt) and in the Maui and Hina-Sinilau tales, but in the Gifford/Collocott high theogony she is a legendary/tale figure rather than one of the great ranked gods. Wired into the Maui line as wife of Maui 'Atalanga and mother of Maui Kisikisi per the dominant genealogy (a variant of the cycle names the woman Sinailele). Sex female; immortal. Her own parentage is not securely given in the Tongan sources and is left empty (see SOLITARY note).

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Mesake lomu (Gifford)

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: MalekulauluaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
  • mother: HeimoanaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
  E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)

Children

• Maui Kisikisi

Children in alternative accounts

• Afulunga: Mesake lomu (Gifford)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
• Io (Lomu’s account): Mesake lomu (Gifford)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
• Kohai (Lomu’s account): Mesake lomu (Gifford)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
• Tangaloa (Lomu’s account): Mesake lomu (Gifford)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)

Domains

• moon
• tapa and women's craft
• weaving and cloth

Powers

• dwells in the moon, beating tapa
• protects the fire-walkers

Relations

• spouse: Maui 'AtalangaWife of Maui 'Atalanga and mother of Maui Kisikisi in the dominant Maui-genealogy; in a related Tongan telling the woman of the Maui cycle is Sinailele, who conceives by stepping over the Mauis' bones (variant noted).Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), on Hina and Maui 'Atalanga as the parents of Maui Kisikisi (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: 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: 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)
• equated with: NuahineReflex 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)
• father: MalekulauluaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)
• mother: HeimoanaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 19–20 (primary)

Sources

• Hina is the Tongan moon-woman, seen seated in the moon beating tapa (bark-cloth) and, in the Tongan legends, the protecting goddess who watches over the fire-walkers; she is entangled with the Tongan Maui cycle, where she is named as the wife of Maui 'Atalanga and mother of the culture-hero Maui Kisikisi.: Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924) (secondary); Collocott, E. E. V. Tales and Poems of Tonga (Bishop Museum Bulletin 46, 1928) (secondary); Westervelt, W. D. Legends of Ma-ui (1910) (secondary)