Hina
Tuamotuan · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
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 the canoe-pilotTeuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928) (secondary)
- Hina-i-aa-i-te-marama Hina who stepped into the moonTeuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928) (secondary)
Relations
- lover: Maui-tikitikiWon by Maui when he slays her husband, the eel Te Tuna.Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934), on Maui winning Hina (secondary)
- equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: SinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: Ina (woman in the moon)Reflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: HinaReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- equated with: NuahineReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Hina), cognate across the island groups.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
- sibling: RuReciprocal of tuamotuan_ru.sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
- spouse: Te TunaReciprocal of tuamotuan_te_tuna.spouse (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
Sources
- Hina is the great Tuamotuan female deity and moon-woman: the wife of the eel Te Tuna won by Maui when he slays Tuna (the first coconut springing from Tuna's head), and, as Hina-fa'auru-va'a, the divine canoe-pilot and sister of the voyager-god Ru.: Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934) (secondary); Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (quoting the Tuamotuan Hina material) (secondary); Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary)