Religion:List of Māori deities

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This is a list of Māori deities, known in Māori as atua.

Major departmental deities

• Haumiatiketike, the god of uncultivated food, particularly bracken fern.
• Papatūānuku, the primordial earth mother.
• Ranginui, the primordial sky father.
• Rongomātāne, the god of cultivated foods, particularly sweet potato.
• Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds.
• Tangaroa, the god of the ocean and the creatures within.
• Tāwhirimātea, the god of storms and violent weather.
• Tūmatauenga, the god of war, hunting, cooking, fishing, and food cultivation.
• Whiro, the lord of darkness and embodiment of all evil and death.
• Aituā, the god of death, happiness, and misfortune.
• Ao, a personification of light.
• Auahitūroa, the personification of comets, and the origin of the fire.
• Haere, several personifications of the rainbow.
• Ikatere, a fish god and father of all sea creatures.
• Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest.
• Kahukura, a war god who appears as the upper bow of a double rainbow.
• Kiwa, one of several divine guardians of the ocean.
• Makeatutara, the father of Māui and guardian of the underworld.
• Maru, the god of freshwater, southern god of war.
• Mataaho, a god of earthquakes and volcanoes from the Tāmaki Makaurau Region (Auckland).
• Māui, a demigod, culture hero, and trickster.
• Motoro
• Ngahue or Kahue, the god or discoverer of pounamu, the taniwha Poutini is his guardian.
• Pūhaorangi, a celestial being who descended from the heavens to sleep with the beautiful maiden Te Kuraimonoa.
• Punga or Hairi, the ancestor of sharks, lizards, rays, and all deformed, ugly things.
• Rehua, the star god with the power of healing.
• Rongomai, the name of a number of separate beings.
• Rongo, the god of crops and peace
• Ruaumoko, the god of volcanoes, earthquakes, and seasons.
• Tamanuiterā, the personification of the sun.
• Tane-rore, the personification of shimmering air.
• Tāwhaki, a semi-supernatural being associated with thunder and lightning.
• Te Uira, the personification of lightning.
• Tiki, the first human, but sometimes is a child of Rangi and Papa, and creates the first human.
• Tinirau, a guardian of fish.
• Tūtewehiwehi, the father of all reptiles.
• Uenuku, a god of the rainbow, associated with war. Also a deified ancestor.
• Urutengangana, the god of the light.

Female atua

• Ārohirohi, the goddess of mirages and shimmering heat.
• Hinauri, sister, or uncommonly, wife of Māui, associated with the moon.
• Hinekapea, the goddess of loyalty.
• Hinehōaka, the goddess of sandstone, the taniwha Whatipū is her guardian.
• Hinenuitepō, the goddess of night and death, and ruler of the underworld.
• Hinepūkohurangi, the goddess of the mist
• Hineteiwaiwa, the goddess of childbirth, te whare pora and the arts
• Hinemoana, the goddess of the ocean
• Ikaroa, the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way.
• Kohara
• Kui, the chthonic demigod.
• Mahuika, the goddess of fire.
• Moekahu, a lesser known goddess (or god) of Tūhoe whose form was of a dog (kurī), and a sibling of Haere.
• Rohe, the goddess of the spirit world.
• Tangotango, a celestial woman who fell in love with the great hero Tāwhaki and came to earth to become his wife.
• Tūāwhiorangi, the wife of Kahukura who manifests as the lower bow during a double rainbow.
• Whaitiri, the personification of thunder.

See also

• Family tree of the Māori gods
• Māori mythology