Talk:Family tree of the Māori gods

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Nice table Wolfgang. Made some minor corrections. Actually, I do have a couple aahhaof concerns about this table, which I was intending to raise with you about the German version.

  1. Firstly, just what version does it represent - that is, just whose tradition is this? If it is a 'combination' from various tribal traditions, then it is something newly-created here that may never have existed in reality in this particular form. I think it is important that something that is represented here as 'Māori' tradition should have existed as a whole in at least one identifiable source. Or does it come from one source, and if so, what was it? If the source was Wikipedia, then that might be problematic. What I am saying is, is there one source in which all these characters occur in this exact genealogical relationship with one another, or has this relationship been derived from combining various (possibly unrelated) sources?
  2. Another matter is that some of the figures mentioned are not important gods, or even gods at all. Rehua - if a god, not a major god (god of what exactly??), quite a minor character in the stories about the semi-god Tāwhaki. Punga and his descendants are minor characters too - villians or comic characters in stories about more important characters such as Tāwhaki. Kaitangata is not a god either - he is a relatively minor character, human husband of the celestial woman Whaitiri, who is more important than he is. Kahuroa 00:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The problems mentioned above have never been addressed ... This article has no credible basis. Piwaiwaka (talk) 05:39, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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