Ru
Tuamotuan · deity · mythic · deity
Domains
- voyaging and navigation
- the raising of the sky
Powers
- props up and raises the sky from the earth
- circumnavigates the ocean in his canoe Te-apori, fixing the world's quarters
Epithets
Relations
Sources
- Emory, Kenneth P. Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation, Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136
- Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940)
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