Tangiia-nui (the Founding Navigator)
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Tangiia-nui is the great founding ancestor-navigator of Rarotonga in the traditions recorded by Te Ariki-tara-are; arriving by voyaging canoe, he and the Samoan chief Karika partitioned the island between their lines, the charter of Rarotongan chieftainship.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Kereteki: Son of the Rarotongan chief (Gill)William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25–26 (primary)
- Motoro: Son of the Rarotongan chief (Gill)William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25–26 (primary)
- Ruanuku: Son of the Rarotongan chief (Gill)William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25–26 (primary)
- Utakea: Son of the Rarotongan chief (Gill)William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25–26 (primary)
Names and tradition associations
- Tangiia (Mangaian deity) William Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 24 (primary)
Domains
- founding navigation
Powers
- to settle Rarotonga and found its senior chiefly lines
Relations
- ally: Karika (the Co-Founding Chief)Tangiia and Karika met at sea, made peace, and jointly divided and settled Rarotonga.Te Ariki-tara-are, 'History and Traditions of Rarotonga', trans. S. Percy Smith, Journal of the Polynesian Society 8-29 (1899-1920). (secondary)
- spouse: MoetumaWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25 n. 1 (primary)
- spouse: PuataraWilliam Wyatt Gill, Myths and Songs from the South Pacific (1876), pp. 25 n. 1 (primary)
Sources
- Tangiia-nui is the founding ancestor-navigator of Rarotonga who, with Karika, settled and divided the island.: Te Ariki-tara-are, 'History and Traditions of Rarotonga', trans. S. Percy Smith, Journal of the Polynesian Society 8-29 (1899-1920). (secondary); Robert D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989). (secondary)