Key Info

- Supreme ruler, creator of the universe and focus of the Bird-Man Sect

Brief Bio

Makemake, also written as Make-make, in Rapa Nui in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island is the creator of humanity, the god of fertility and the chief god of the "Tangata manu" or bird-man sect (this sect succeeded the island's more famous Moai era). He appeared to be the local form, or name, of the old Polynesian god Tane. He had no wife.

Makemake, as a face with large eyes or perhaps a skull with large eye sockets and an elongated nose, is a frequent subject of the Rapa Nui petroglyphs.