Faumea
Tuamotuan · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Faumea is Tagaroa’s wife and mother of Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-faumea in the Vahitahi narrative reported by Beckwith. She releases the wind during the rescue of Hina-a-rauriki.
Children
Variant accounts
- source review correctionReplace internal scaffolding with the cited Vahitahi portrayal.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, p. 289, Vahitahi account (secondary)
- source review correctionDo not present unreviewed creation-chart ancestry or internal record-state notes as parentage.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, p. 289, Vahitahi account (secondary)
Domains
- the eel woman and fertility
- command of the wind
Powers
- harbours man-eating eels within her body and teaches their luring-out
- holds the wind in the sweat of her armpit and releases it to speed canoes
- holds the wind in the sweat of her armpit and releases it to speed canoes
Relations
- spouse: TakaroaHer husband, the sea-god Takaroa; mother of his sons Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-Faumea.Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940), on Faumea becoming the wife of Tangaroa/Takaroa (secondary)
Sources
- Faumea is the Tuamotuan eel-woman: she harbours man-eating eels within her body and teaches the sea-god Takaroa to lure them out, becomes his wife and bears Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-Faumea, and in the octopus-demon episode holds the wind in the sweat of her armpit, releasing it to speed the rescue-canoes.: Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (quoting the Tuamotuan Faumea text) (secondary)