Varima-te-takere

In Cook Islands mythology, Varima-te-takere ("goddess of the beginning") also called Vari (/ˈvɑːri/ VAH-ree), was the primordial mother of the gods and mortals.

According to Gill, Vari, a female spirit or demon of flesh and blood, was admitted to the lowest depth of the interior of Avaiki, a place described as resembling a vast hollow coconut shell.

Vari's home is in the narrowest of spaces, A goddess feeding on raw taro At appointed periods of worship!

At various times she created six children, three bits of flesh were plucked from each side of her body, and moulded into human form.

Tu-metua (or Tu-papa) was the tutelary deity of the island of Moorea, and the fourteenth night in every moon was sacred to her.