Rongomai
In Māori mythology, Rongomai refers to several entities including a deity who assisted Haungaroa's journey from Hawaiki to New Zealand, a god of comets, and the war god of tribes in the Lake Taupō region. As a celebrated demi-god ancestor, Rongomai traveled with Ihinga to visit Miru in the underworld where they learned incantations, witchcraft, religious songs, dances, and games. One manifestation appears as a whale-form being that attacked the war-party of Maru, and another as the chief of the Mahuhu canoe who drowned during the voyage from Hawaiki to New Zealand.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- Historical notes
- Living tradition among Māori iwi; some manifestations observed in comparatively recent times during tribal warfare.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ngātoro-i-rangi, Manaia, Uenuku, Urutengangana, Whiro, Kahukura, Haumiatiketike, Rongomātāne, Tānemahuta, Aituā, Ngahue, Tamanuiterā, Tūtewehiwehi, Hine-te-wai, Tūāwhiorangi, Pou-te-aniwaniwa, Tāwhirimātea, Tangaroa, Tūmatauenga, Rūaumoko, Rongo, Ao, Māui, Tiki, Papatūānuku, Ranginui, Tane-rore, Auahitūroa, Tinirau, Io Matua Kore, Te Uira, Tāwhaki, Ikatere, Punga, Makeatutara, Mataaho, Kiwa, Pūhaorangi, Rehua, Haere
- enemy of
- Maru
- parent of
- Kahukura
- student of
- Miru
Mentioned by
- Tāwhirimātea
- Tangaroa
- Tūmatauenga
- Rūaumoko
- Rongo
- Ao
- Māui
- Tiki
- Papatūānuku
- Ranginui
- Tane-rore
- Auahitūroa
- Tinirau
- Io Matua Kore
- Te Uira
- Tāwhaki
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Sources
Source passages
“In Māori mythology, Rongomai refers to several entities: a deity by whose assistance Haungaroa traveled from Hawaiki to New Zealand...a god of comet...the war god of the tribes in the Lake Taupō region...a celebrated demi-god ancestor”
#31737 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Rongomai, the name of a number of separate beings.”
#32271 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat