Ru

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

• Ru Tuamotuan · Ru · namethe Transplanter (sky-raiser and voyager)Teuira Henry, Ancient Tahiti (1928) (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: HinaBrother of Hina-fa-auru-va-a, the canoe-pilot; she sits at the bow naming the islands as Ru steers and circumnavigates the ocean.Emory, Kenneth P. Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation, Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136, on Hina-fa-auru-va-a and her brother Ru (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Emory, Kenneth P. Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation, Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary); Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (secondary)