Te Tuna

Domains

• eels and the waters

Relations

• spouse: HinaHusband of Hina before Maui slays him and wins her.Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934), on Hina the wife of Te Tuna (secondary)
• enemy: Maui-tikitikiSlain by Maui in the contest over Hina; the first coconut springs from his severed head.Stimson, J. Frank. The Legends of Maui and Tahaki (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 127, 1934), on Maui slaying Te Tuna (secondary)

Sources

• existence: 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 Maui-Tuna text) (secondary)