Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Taumata-Atua" | Polynesia | vegetation god who presides over the fields Polynesia |
Deities name "Taumata-Atua" | Polynesian / including Maori | vegetation god. He presides over the fields and may be the god Rongomatane under an alternative name. In Maori culture Taumata-Atua, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems, which are depictions of ancestors.... |