Ngana
One of the Powers of The Air, Winds. He is a descendant of Te Mangu and Mahorahora-nui-a-Rangi through Toko-mua, the elder prop of heaven. He is the son of Hau-ngangana and father of Ngana-nui.
Ngana is also mentioned as a solar deity, the second son of Rangi and Papa.1 From him proceeded the sun, the moon, and the stars.2
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References
Notes
- Hare Hongi. (1907). "A Maori Cosmogony." Journal of the Polynesian Society 16:109-119, pp. 106 ff.
- Gudgeon, W. E. (1905). "Maori Religion." Journal of the Polynesian Society 14:107-130, p. 115.
Source
- Shortland, Edward. (1882). Maori Religion and Mythology. London: Longmans Green, p. 13.