Taranga’s Family Tree

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Family

• Makea-tutara(spouse),Hinauri(child),Maui(child),Māui-pae(child),Māui-roto(child),Māui-taha(child),Māui-waho(child)— Marriage · Miraculous

  Taranga and Makea-tutara are the parents of Maui-tikitiki-a-Taranga and his four elder brothers — Māui-taha, Māui-roto, Māui-pae, and Māui-waho — as well as their sister Hinauri in Maori tradition. Taranga cast the premature Maui into the sea wrapped in her topknot, where ocean spirits nursed him back to life.

• Mahuika(parent)

  Mahuika is the mother of Taranga and grandmother of Maui in Maori tradition. She kept fire in her fingernails until Maui tricked her into surrendering them.

Associated with

• Makea-tutara,Maui

  Maui tracked his mother Taranga to the entrance of the underworld and descended to find his father Makea-tutara, who revealed Maui's divine ancestry and taught him sacred incantations.

• Maui,Pō

  Maui shapeshifted into a pigeon to spy on his mother Taranga as she descended each dawn into Pō, the underworld realm of the dead, discovering the entrance to the world below.

• Maui

  Taranga cast the premature Maui into the sea wrapped in her topknot, where ocean spirits nursed him to health. Years later, Maui returned and proved his identity to his mother, who wept and acknowledged her abandoned son.