What is "marama"

In Cook Islands mythology, Marama was a male lunar deity, who loved Ina, the goddess of light. She married Marama and lives in the sky during the daytime and rarely sees her husband.

Mārama was most likely a Māori woman possibly from the Te Rarawa iwi (tribe) in northern New Zealand.

Mārama signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 28 April 1840 in Kaitaia, and is believed to be one of the few women to have signed the treaty.