Papa

deity earth Hawaiian corroborated · 19

Earth mother in Hawaiian mythology.

↻ synthesized from 19 sources

When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
0 – 2020
Historical notes
Documented in 19th-century folklore collections.

Relationships

sibling of
Rangi
enemy of
Hinemoana
consort of
Rangi, Vatea, Wākea
aspect of
Atea
syncretized with
Haumea
allied with
Wākea
child of
Po

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Sources

Source passages

“in order for Wākea, the sky father, to get alone with his daughter, Hoʻohokukalani without his wahine, or wife, Papa, the earth mother, noticing.”

#232 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“Papa, the earth mother, noticing. The spiritually pure or laʻa, meaning "sacred" and unclean or haumia were to be separated.”

#612 · extracted by claude-sonnet-4-6

“Rangi and Papa, primordial parents in Māori tradition”

#19194 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“from Marama is Po. Finally, from Po, is Rangi and Papa, Heaven Father and Earth Mother, from which all other gods were descended.”

#19396 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“which were sent to punish his brothers after the separation of his parents, Rangi and Papa.”

#31578 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5