Tāwhiri

Tāwhirimātea, the God of Weather, Storms, and Thunder, who tore out his own eyes in grief and threw them into the sky to become the stars of Matariki. He is the "Fury of the Gale," the brother who never forgave the separation of his parents. He represents the "Unpredictable Power" of the atmosphere—the wind that can fill a sail or shatter a village. He is the roar of the hurricane and the lashing of the rain, the one who demands that we never forget the primal anger of the sky.