Makeatutara
Makeatutara is the father of Māui and a deity and guardian of the underworld in Māori mythology. He made mistakes while reciting the dedicatory or baptismal incantations over Māui, which made it inevitable that Māui would die. As a result of his error, humankind became mortal.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Mataaho, Kiwa, Maru, Pūhaorangi, Rehua, Haere, Rongomai, Uenuku, Urutengangana, Whiro, Kahukura, Haumiatiketike, Rongomātāne, Tānemahuta, Aituā, Ngahue, Tamanuiterā, Tūtewehiwehi, atua kahukahu, Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, Tāwhirimātea, Tangaroa, Tūmatauenga, Rūaumoko, Rongo, Ao, Tiki, Papatūānuku, Ranginui, Tane-rore, Auahitūroa, Tinirau, Io Matua Kore, Te Uira, Tāwhaki, Ikatere, Punga, Hinenuitepō, Hina
- consort of
- Taranga
Mentioned by
- Tāwhirimātea
- Tangaroa
- Tūmatauenga
- Rūaumoko
- Rongo
- Ao
- Tiki
- Papatūānuku
- Ranginui
- Tane-rore
- Auahitūroa
- Tinirau
- Io Matua Kore
- Te Uira
- Tāwhaki
- Ikatere
and 3 more
Sources
Source passages
“Makeatutara is the father of Māui. His wife is Taranga. He is a deity and guardian of the underworld. Makeatutara made mistakes as he recited the dedicatory (or baptismal) incantations over Māui, which made it inevitable that Māui would die.”
#31591 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Makeatutara, the father of Māui and guardian of the underworld.”
#32263 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Māui was the son of Taranga and Makeatutara, guardian of the underworld. He was born prematurely and his mother, fearing he would return as atua kahukahu (malevolent child spirits), threw him into the sea, wrapped in a tress of hair from her topknot (tikitiki) – hence Māui's full name is Māui-tikitiki-a-Taranga”
#36843 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001