Editing Raka-maomao

{{Short description|Māori god of wind}}
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}}
'''Raka-maomao''' or '''Rakamaomao''', in [[Māori mythology]], is a god of [[wind]]. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to [[Tāwhirimātea]], who is the god of tempests.<ref Name="Tregear">{{cite book |last= Tregear |first= Edward Robert |title= The Maori Race |publisher= Archibald Dudingston Willis |year= 1904 |location= Wanganui |page=473 |chapter= Chapter XX. Religion and Cosmogony |chapter-url= https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TreRace-t1-body-d20.html |via=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection |access-date=12 August 2019 |quote=Raka-maomao was the god of ordinary winds, as separate from Tawhiri-matea the god of tempests.}}</ref> To the [[Waitaha (South Island iwi)|Waitaha]] tribe of the [[South Island]], Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Ngāi Tahu - The genealogy of the land |first=Te Maire |last=Tau |url= https://teara.govt.nz/en/ngai-tahu/page-5 |encyclopedia=Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |date=1 March 2017 |access-date=12 August 2019}}</ref>

Raka-maomao is equivalent to Ra‘a (Society Islands), [[Raka (mythology)|Raka]] (Cook Islands), [[La'a Maomao]] ([[Hawaii]])<ref Name="Kawaharada">{{cite web |last= Kawaharada |first= Dennis |title= Introduction to The Wind Gourd of La'amaomao |publisher= University of Hawai‘i |year= 1992 |url= http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dennisk/texts/introwindgourd.html |accessdate=12 August 2019 |quote=... the wind deity in other Polynesian traditions is male (Ra‘a—Society Islands, Raka—Cook Islands, Raka-maomao—New Zealand).}}</ref> and [[Fa'atiu]] ([[Samoa]]).

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[[Category:Māori gods]]
[[Category:Wind deities]]


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