Uira
- Scope Note
- Traditional usage: the personification of lightning. Contemporary usage: flash of bright light produced by an electric discharge between clouds or cloud and ground.
- Tukutuku/Used For
- Hiko (Āhua-o-te-rangi)
- English Used For
- Lightning
- Tahūhū/Broader Term
- Āhua-o-te-rangi
- Atua
- Kaho/Related Term
- Hine-te-Uira