Tonga-iti

Mangaian lizard-god, son of Vatea and Papa, brother of the twins (Gill 1876); also called Motoro, a chief god of the soil of Mangaia.

Parentage

• Vatea
• Papa

Domains

• tribal god of mangaia
• lizards and reptiles
• the soil and land

Powers

• manifest in the body of the lizard

Relations

• sibling: Rongo
• sibling: Tangaroa
• sibling: Tane
• sibling: Tangiia

Sources

• William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), Ch. I, pp. 12–14
• Robert D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (1989), s.v. 'Motoro / Tonga-iti'