Tagaloa, the Niuean form of the great Polynesian sky- and creator-god (Samoan Tagaloa, Tongan Tangaloa, Māori Tangaroa), was worshipped on Niue under several forms. Loeb records that on Niue the rainbow was regarded as the image or the abiding place of Tangaloa, so that the appearance of a rainbow signalled the god's presence in the sky. Unlike the migrating band of tupua led by Fao and Huanaki, who are tied to the physical making and peopling of the island, Tagaloa belongs to the older cosmic stratum of the heavens and creation that Niue shares with the wider West Polynesian world.