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Makemake with two birdmen, carved from red scoria
Makemake (also written as Make-make; pronounced [ˈmakeˈmake] 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Makemake” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.