# List of Māori deities

This is a list of Māori deities, known in Māori as atua.
Note: there are two Mythologies relating Tangaroa, Papatuanuku and Ranginui (Raki)

## 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 / Kumara.
* Tānemahuta, the god of forests and birds.
* Tangaroa, the god of the ocean and the creatures within. (Original Father in the Main Mythology)
* 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, unhappiness, and misfortune.
* Ao, a personification of light.
* Auahitūroa, the personification of comets, and the origin of 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.
* Hine-kau-ataata
* 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.
* Mārikoriko
* 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.