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Tradition collection 68 records

Oceania and Australia

Polynesian, Melanesian, Māori, Hawaiian and Aboriginal Australian traditions.

  • Extent The Pacific and Australia, antiquity to the present.
  • Holds 54 gods · 5 places · 3 texts and stories
Meet the gods

Before you count

Aboriginal Australian traditions are held by their communities, and much is not public and should not be.

What else it is missing

Gods · 54

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 54 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Places · 5

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 5 places

5 places 5 with a point on the map none dated yet

See them on the atlas

Texts and stories · 3

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 3 stories

Also here · 3

Also in this collection

Kinds it holds only one or two of, each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 68 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
116
With references
18
Undated
67
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Aboriginal Australian traditions are held by their communities, and much is not public and should not be.
  • Coverage here is the thinnest on the site relative to the traditions' depth.
  • Recorded sacred places are those already publicly designated; absence on the atlas means nothing about significance.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 1.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 1 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Oceania and Australia by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Gods, through a parent or a consort · 1

Keep going

Walk Oceania and Australia another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Pele’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Kamehameha I