Tu
Tuamotuan · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Entered deity / male / immortal / mythic. Wired as sibling of Tane and Rongo (the man-making triad). Atea/Fakahotu parentage is NOT asserted (the Paiore charts place the great gods variably). Cognate with Maori Tumatauenga and Hawaiian Ku (noted, not identity).
Domains
- war and the artisans
- the making of mankind
Powers
- shapes the first man, using his spittle as mortar
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: RongoFellow 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)
Sources
- Tu is one of the great gods of the Tuamotus, the god of war and of the artisans, and a member of the man-making triad Tane–Tu–Rongo, whose office is to shape the first man with his spittle as mortar.: Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary)