Ika-Roa

In Māori & Polynesian mythology, Ika-Roa is the long fish that gave birth to all the stars in the Milky Way or the Mother Goddess of the all the stars - ornaments of the Sky God. Ika-Roa is also an alternative name for the Milky Way. Ika-roa was also called Mang ō roa (long shark) or Mangōroa i ata (long shark in the early dawn).
See more at Wikipedia.org...

[Polynesian] The Milky Way, the shining vehicle of the night-goddess Po. Ika-Roa, 'The Long Fish, who Gave Birth to All the Stars', was of vital importance to navigators as a beacon. It is also known as Mangaroa ('Long Brook' or 'Flour River'), and Mango-Roa-I-Ata among the Maori. One myth relates how Tane gathered heaps of small stars together and put them in a canoe, which he put in the sky. Ika-Roa is also mentioned as the mother of the other stars, the ornaments of the sky-god.