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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.
Tagaloa is a sun god whose son Alo'alo married Sina, the daughter of Tuifiti. There is a legend about a figure called Tui Fiti in the village of Fagamalo on the island of Savai'i. In Manu'a, Tagaloa sent a vine to earth that resulted in maggots which became human beings. Tagaloa brought a war god called Fe'e (octopus) to Manu'a
A carving on a Māori war canoe. As Tangaroa was the god of the sea, it was important to offer him before setting out for travel or fishing. The contention between Tangaroa and Tāne Mahuta, the father of birds, trees, and humans, is an indication that the Māori thought of the ocean and the land as opposed realms. When people go out to sea to ...
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.
In Tongan mythology, or oral history, ʻAhoʻeitu is a son of the god ʻEitumātupuʻa and a mortal woman, ʻIlaheva Vaʻepopua.He became the first king of the Tuʻi Tonga (Tonga king) dynasty in the early 10th century, dethroning the previous one with the same name but originating from the uanga (maggots) instead of divine; see Kohai, Koau, mo Momo.
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.
At that time the god Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa was the king of the sky, and he commanded some of the Tangaloa gods to tell the faʻahikehe (sub-god) Laufakanaʻa to go down to the realm of light (i.e. the earth, not Pulotu) to become ruler of ʻAta and also ruler of the winds. Whenever a boat came to ʻAta in stormy weather, Laufakanaʻa had to ...