Papa (disambiguation)

1. Papa
   The Earth, the Great Mother. She was the wife of Rangi, the Sky. They were forced apart by their children.
   In: Māori mythology
2. Papa
   The omnipotent and omniscient creator of all things. He is a stern and unforgiving deity.
3. Papa
   In a Samoan story, a woman born without a vagina. Her husband drew a vagina on a shark's tooth and she bore a son.
4. Papa
   The daughter of Timātekore and his wife Timaiti-Ngava Ringavari. Papa visited the great deity Vātea in his dreams.
5. Papa
   One of the wives of Tāne, who begat by her the kiwi. This bird is often alluded to in myth and song as 'the hidden bird of Tāne.
   In: Māori mythology

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