Ika-Roa
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In Māori mythology, Ikaroa is the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or the Mother Goddess of all the stars – ornaments of the Sky God. Ika-Roa is also an alternative name for the Milky Way.
Ika-roa was also called Mangōroa ("long shark") or Mangōroa i ata ("long shark in the early dawn").
Notes
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References
- E. Shortland, Maori Religion and Mythology (Longmans: London), 1882.
- E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891.