Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Tangaloa was an important family of gods in Tongan mythology. The first Tangaloa was the cousin of Havea Hikuleʻo and Maui , or in some sources the brother or son or father of them. He was Tangaloa ʻEiki ( T. lord ), and was assigned by his father, Taufulifonua, the realm of the sky to rule.
In the Polynesian mythology of the Tongan island of ʻAta, the god Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa [1] is the king of the heavens. He is the one who ordered (through his servants all called Tangaloa (Tangaloa ʻEiki, Tangaloa Tufunga, and Tangaloa ʻAtulongolongo)) the sub-god Laufakanaʻa to become ruler of that island.
In the Polynesian mythology of the Tongan island of ʻAta, the god Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa [1] is the king of the heavens. He is the one who ordered (through his servants all called Tangaloa (Tangaloa ʻEiki, Tangaloa Tufunga, and Tangaloa ʻAtulongolongo)) the sub-god Laufakanaʻa to become ruler of that island.
Tangaloa, the sky god (or grouped together as sky gods), was regarded in Vava'u as the deity who hauled up the islands of the Vava'u group, his fish hook (This is also similar to the story of Maui fishing up the North Island of New Zealand) catching in what is now the island of Hunga.
According to leading Tongan scholar Dr. 'Okusitino Mahina, the Tongan and Samoan oral traditions indicate that the first Tuʻi Tonga was the son of their god Tangaloa. [5] As the ancestral homeland of the Tuʻi Tonga dynasty and the abode of deities such as Tagaloa ʻEitumatupuʻa, Tonga Fusifonua, and Tavatavaimanuka, the Manuʻa islands of ...
A transgender man was physically tortured for more than a month in an upstate New York motel until he died, with his alleged attackers ditching his corpse in an empty field in an attempt to cover ...
"Happy Valentine’s Day from the Biebers," he captioned an Instagram post at the time.. Bieber has also teased new music as of late. In a Feb. 9 post on Instagram, he shared various photos taken ...
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tangaloa_(Tongan_mythology)&oldid=1093275621"