Fakahotu
Tuamotuan · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Entered deity / female / immortal / primordial. Earth-and-fruitfulness consort of Atea; mother of Tane. The cognate role across Polynesia is Haumea/Papa (noted, not asserted as identity).
Children
Domains
- earth and fruitfulness
- ancestry of mankind
Powers
- causes fruit and produce to form (the fructifying earth)
Relations
- spouse: AteaHer consort, the sky-expanse Atea.Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136, on Fakahotu and her husband Atea (secondary)
- mother of: TaneMother of the demiurge Tane by Atea.Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136, on Tane among the offspring of Atea and Fakahotu (secondary)
Sources
- Fakahotu (Fa'ahotu), 'the fructifier', is the earth/fruitfulness power of the Tuamotuan cosmogony: the consort of Atea the sky, with him the apex-ancestress of mankind and the mother of the demiurge Tane; when their first children died the pair exchanged sexes so the sky became the nurturing father-mother.: Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary)