Raka-maomao
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Raka-maomao or Rakamaomao, in Māori mythology, is a god of wind. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of tempests.<ref Name="Tregear">Template:Cite book</ref> To the Waitaha tribe of the South Island, Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Raka-maomao is equivalent to Ra‘a (Society Islands), Raka (Cook Islands), La'a Maomao (Hawaii)<ref Name="Kawaharada">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Fa'atiu (Samoa).