Rongo
Tuamotuan · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Entered deity / male / immortal / mythic. Wired as sibling of Tane and Tu (the man-making triad). Atea/Fakahotu parentage is NOT asserted (the Paiore charts place the great gods variably; he is named 'son of Vaio' in his own legend). Cognate with Tahitian Ro'o and Hawaiian Lono (noted, not identity).
Domains
- the great gods of the tuamotus
- the making of mankind
Powers
- fetches the pieces of earth from which the first man is shaped
Relations
- sibling: TaneFellow of the man-making triad.Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136, on the man-making triad Tane, Tu and Rongo (secondary)
- sibling: TuFellow of the man-making triad.Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136, on the man-making triad Tane, Tu and Rongo (secondary)
- equated with: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: LonoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: Ro'oReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: RongoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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: OnoReflex of the same ancestral Polynesian deity (*Rongo), 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)
Sources
- Rongo is one of the great gods of the Tuamotus — the subject of the dedicated Tuamotu legend of Rongo son of Vaio (Emory, JPS 1947) — and a member of the man-making triad Tane–Tu–Rongo, whose office is to fetch the earth from which the first man is shaped.: Emory, Kenneth P. 'The Tuamotu Legend of Rongo, Son of Vaio', Journal of the Polynesian Society 56 (1947), pp. 52-54 (secondary); Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary)