In Māori tradition, Rongorongo is the wife of Turi (mythology), the chief of the Aotea canoe. She is an ancestress of the Whanganui and Ngati Ruanui iwi. The Aotea canoe was given to Rongorongo as a present by her father Toto (Tregear 1891:426).

wood tablets with undeciphered symbols. The priests who were trained to chant the sacred information were the tangata rongorongo.