Tangiia

Mangaian tribal god, son of Vatea and Papa, brother of the twins (Gill 1876). Not to be confused with the Rarotongan canoe-chief Tangiia of the migration traditions.

Parentage

• Vatea
• Papa

Domains

• tribal god of mangaia

Powers

• stand tutelary over his tribe of Mangaia

Relations

• sibling: Rongo
• sibling: Tangaroa
• sibling: Tane
• sibling: Tonga-iti

Sources

• William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), Ch. I, pp. 12–14