Taranga
Taranga is the mother of Māui. She urged her son to take the goddess Hina as his wife. She also suggested that Māui bury Tuna's head, which then sprouted into a coconut tree.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Makeatutara, atua kahukahu, Tama-nui-ki-te-Rangi, Te Tuna, Tāwhirimātea, Mahuika
- consort of
- Makeatutara
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Finally she met Māui, whose mother Taranga urged him to take the goddess as his wife. Māui cut off Tuna's head and, at his mother's suggestion, buried it in a corner of his house.”
#18746 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Makeatutara is the father of Māui. His wife is Taranga.”
#31592 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Māui's mother Taranga, who was their rangatira, said that someone would have to ask Mahuika, the goddess of fire, for more.”
#32096 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“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”
#36842 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001