Uenuku-kopako
deity earth Māori single tradition · 1
Uenuku-kopako is a mauri (sacred object or spirit) that according to Gilbert Mair had been taken from Taranaki by a war party led by Tūwhare and Patuone around 1820. Mair identifies this mauri as the one given to Governor George Grey in 1866, though its relationship to Matuatonga is unclear.
When
- First attested
- 1820 CE
- Attested period
- 1820 – 1866
- Historical notes
- Taken from Taranaki around 1820 by war party, given to Governor Grey in 1866 according to Gilbert Mair's account.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Matuatonga
- co occurs with
- Matuatehe
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“According to Gilbert Mair the mauri given to Grey, which he calls Uenuku-kopako, had been taken from Taranaki by a war party led by Tūwhare and Patuone around 1820.”
#31625 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5