Tāne
c. 1300 CE – 2026 CEattested
Aotearoa
- Polynesian
Forced apart his parents the sky and the earth by lying on his back and pushing with his legs, letting light into the world, then made the forests and the first woman.
Known for
- separating sky and earth
- god of forests
- the baskets of knowledge
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.