Raka-maomao
In Māori mythology, Raka-maomao is a god of wind. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of tempests. To the Waitaha tribe of the South Island, Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
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- syncretized with
- Raka, Ra‘a, La'a Maomao, Fa'atiu
- co occurs with
- Ra‘a, Laʻamaomao, Tāwhirimātea
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“Raka-maomao or Rakamaomao, in Māori mythology, is a god of wind. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of tempests. To the Waitaha tribe of the South Island, Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north.”
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“Raka-maomao – a wind god”
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“The female gender of the wind deity in the Paka‘a story seems to be a Hawaiian development as the wind deity in other Polynesian traditions is male (Ra‘a—Society Islands, Raka—Cook Islands, Raka-maomao—New Zealand).”
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