Tane

Proper noun

 * 1)  The god of forests and trees; brother of Tangaroa, Rongo and others.
 * 2) * 1986 [1979, W. H. Smith & Sons (Windward)], Arthur Cotterell, A Dictionary of World Mythology,, page 270,
 * One of the great conflict myths in Polynesia was the struggle between [the sky god] Atea and Tane-mahuta, which the Maoris conceived of as the separation of the sky father from the earth mother, Rangi and Papa respectively. The islanders believed that Atea tried to capture the young god Tane, and sent a host of lesser deities after him. After Tane escaped from his pursuers on earth and wandered the clouds, he became so hungry that he killed and ate one of his ancestors, which was the beginning of cannibalism. On reaching manhood, Tane declared war on the sky god and, using the thunderbolts of his ancestor Fatu-tiri, 'thunder', he slew Atea.
 * 1) * 1995 [1994, The Encyclopedia of Creation Myths, ABC-CLIO], David Adams Leeming, Margaret Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Creation Myths,, page 228,
 * The various offspring of Rangi and Papa, led by the forest god, Tane, and the ocean god, Tangaroa, argued over what to do. Some chose to go to land, others chose going out to sea. Tane gave his children canoes and nets so they might catch the children of Tangaroa, and sometimes Tangaroa swallowed up Tane’s people. It is still this way today between the children of Tane and Tangaroa.
 * 1)  The god of peace and beauty.
 * 1)  The god of peace and beauty.
 * 1)  The god of peace and beauty.