Within Mangaian myth of origin Avatea occupies a primordial position as the father of gods and men. Sources present him as an origin-stage, ancestral being who links human lineage and the pantheon: his role in the cosmogony is to stand as progenitor of both divine and human descendants and to embody aspects of the heavens through his person.
The primary descriptive motif recorded is cosmological: Avatea's eyes were thought to be the Sun and the Moon. He is characterized symbolically as a god of light and a lunar deity; beyond this ocular identification with the principal luminaries, the supplied sources do not provide further consistent physical description.
Source material attributes to Avatea the status of a lunar deity and god of light and names him explicitly the father of gods and men. These descriptions identify him with the Sun and Moon (through his eyes) and with generative parentage in the origin narrative. The sources do not record specific acts, feats, or intervening behaviors beyond these ascriptions.
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- [1]Avatea. "In Cook Islands mythology, Avatea was a lunar deity and the father of gods and men in Mangaian myth of origin. His eyes were thought to be the Sun and the Moon; he was also known as the god of light." — Wikipedia (Avatea)wiki