Tu

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: Tane
• sibling: Rongo

Sources

• Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136