Maui 'Atalanga

Entered as a demigod. Son of Maui Motu'a (parentId) and husband of Hina; father of Maui Kisikisi. In a minority of tellings it is 'Atalanga rather than Kisikisi who brings fire — noted, with the deed assigned to Kisikisi per the dominant recension. Sex male; immortal.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

• parent: Maui Motu'a

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)
• Maatu

  Divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.

  • father: TaufulifonuaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)
  E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)
• Collocott reported by gifford

  Divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.

  • father: PikiE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)
  E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)

Children

• Maui Kisikisi

Domains

• cultivation and the land

Powers

• passes between the upper world and the underworld

Relations

• spouse: HinaHina is the wife of 'Atalanga and the mother of Maui Kisikisi.Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), on Maui 'Atalanga and Hina as the parents of Maui Kisikisi (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)
• father: TaufulifonuaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)
• father: PikiE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 14–15 (primary)

Sources

• Maui 'Atalanga is the middle of the three Tongan Maui — son of the old Maui (Maui Motu'a) and, by Hina, father of the trickster Maui Kisikisi — who passes between the upper world and his father's underworld to cultivate the ground, the road by which his son follows to win fire.: 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)