Taema

Taema, the conjoined twin (with Tilafaiga) who brought the tatau from Fiji to Samoa, landing at Falealupo on Savaiʻi; reckoned also a war-goddess. The two sisters, born joined back-to-back, were severed by a canoe-spar as they swam. Documented by Krämer and Turner (secondary).

Domains

• tattooing tatau
• war and protective power

Powers

• Bring the art and instruments of the tatau from Fiji to Samoa with her twin

Relations

• twin sibling: Tilafaiga

Sources

• A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03; Eng. The Samoa Islands), the tatau-origin twins
• G. Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884)
• A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03): Taema, twin of Tilafaiga, who brought the tatau