Io Matua Kore

deity sky New Zealand single tradition · 4

Io Matua Kore is an atua in Māori tradition. Mataaho may be one of the names or aspects of this deity.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

Attested period
1830 – 2020

Relationships

manifests as
Mataaho

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Sources

Source passages

“Tagaloa's role as paramount deity in the Samoa pantheon bears similarities to the position of Ta'aroa in Tahiti and Io Matua Kore in New Zealand.”

#31272 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Mataaho is also involved in the stories of Rangi and Papa (however Mataaho may be one of the names for the atua Io Matua Kore (Io-mataaho)).”

#31603 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest.”

#32260 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“Io Matua Kore paramount deity in New Zealand Māori mythology”

#32767 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001