Hina

Entered deity / female / immortal / mythic. The multi-aspect Polynesian Hina; her aspect-names (moon-woman; Hina-fa'auru-va'a the canoe-pilot) are treated as one figure. Wired to Maui as lover (the Te Tuna cycle); her own parentage is not securely given, so no parentId is asserted (she carries a real in-batch edge, so not flagged SOLITARY). Her brother Ru is named but not authored.

Domains

• the moon
• canoe piloting and navigation

Powers

• steers/pilots the canoe (Hina-fa'auru-va'a)
• pilots and names the islands from the bow of the voyaging canoe
• watches over night travellers from the moon

Epithets

• Hina-fa'auru-va'a
• Hina-i-aa-i-te-marama

Relations

• lover: Maui-tikitiki
• equated with: Hina
• equated with: Sina
• equated with: Hina
• equated with: Hina
• equated with: Ina
• equated with: Hina
• equated with: Nuahine
• sibling: Ru
• spouse: Te Tuna

Sources

• Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934)
• Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (quoting the Tuamotuan Hina material)
• Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136