Atea

Entered deity / male (primary) / immortal / primordial; the sex-exchange with Fakahotu is recorded in the lifecycle and faculties. Apex-ancestor of mankind in the standard (Emory) Tuamotuan recension; not harmonized in the sources with the esoteric Kiho-tumu, so no kin edge to Kiho is asserted.

Children

• Tane

Domains

• sky and the open expanse of space
• ancestry of mankind

Powers

• exchanges sex with Fakahotu to become the father-mother who suckles the young
• sends a host of lesser gods to seize the fleeing Tane

Relations

• spouse: Fakahotu
• father of: Tane
• equated with: Vatea
• equated with: Atea

Sources

• Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136
• Emory, Kenneth P. 'The Tuamotuan Creation Charts by Paiore', Journal of the Polynesian Society 48 (1939), pp. 1-29