Whiro-te-tipua
deity underworld Māori corroborated · 2
god of darkness, evil, and death
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tagaloa, Savea, Mafui'e, Papatūānuku, Ranginui, Tāne Mahuta, Tāwhirimātea, Haumia-tiketike, Rongo-mā-Tāne, Tangaroa, Tūmatauenga
- sibling of
- Tāne
- enemy of
- Tāne
- parent of
- Atua
- associated with
- Rūaumoko
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Whiro-te-tipua – god of darkness, evil, and death.”
#259 · extracted by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
“Whiro-te-tipua (Iro in Rarotonga) was a Polynesian voyager who shared a name with the offspring of Papatūānuku and Ranginui. Little was known as to whether he actually arrived in New Zealand, though some of the tribes trace their lineage from him, especially perhaps the people of Whanganui.”
#13880 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001