In a tradition of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands, Rohe is married to the demi-god MÃÂui. Beautiful Rohe was a sister of the sun, and her face shone. A quarrel arose after Rohe remarked that MÃÂui's face was ugly. MÃÂui then decided that they should change faces.
Afterwards MÃÂui used magic to kill Rohe, but her spirit returned and destroyed MÃÂui. Thus were black magic and death introduced into the world. After her death, Rohe ruled as the goddess of the pà  (spirit world), where she gathered in the spirits of the dead. Evil influences were attributed to her.
In Mangaia, the name Ro'e appears in Te Aka-ia-Ro'e (the root of all existence) which, according to Tregear, is "a spirit in the form of a thick stem tapering to a point, and is situated at the bottom of the Universe, sustaining the Cosmos".
The MÃÂori knew little of Rohe. Tregear records the one myth associated with her, in which she is married to MÃÂui. She was beautiful as he was ugly, and she refused his request to exchange faces. MÃÂui, however, recited an incantation, and their faces were switched. In anger Rohe left him, and refused to live any longer in the world of light. She went to the underworld, and became a goddess of the pà  (night or spirit world). Rohe is said sometimes to beat the spirits of deceased as they pass through her realm. Her home is in that division of the night world called Te Uranga-o-te-rÃÂ. MÃÂui and Rohe had a son named Rangihore, the god of rocks and stones.
In Tahiti, the 'Father of Famine' is called Rohe-upo'o-nui (Large-headed Rohe).