Io Matua Kore

Io Matua Kore is often understood as the supreme being in Polynesian native religion, particularly of the Māori people.

Io does seem to be present in the mythologies of other Polynesian islands including Hawai‘i, the Society Islands, and the Cook Islands. He, or somebody else with his name, appears as a great-grandson of Tiki, and a father of another Io-rangi in Moriori mythology.^{: 106, 669}