Tagaloa

Turner records several accounts of Tangaloa. His cosmical genealogy gives Tangaloa of the heavens named parents and a son, Pili; another creation account leaves his origin unknown. In the Upolu narrative he marries Sinaleana and fathers Pili. These accounts differ from a blanket claim of kinlessness.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. I, §2)

  deity by descent in this account.

  • father: Tangaloa the originator of menGeorge Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)
  • mother: Great heavensGeorge Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)
  George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)

Children in alternative accounts

• Langituavalu: Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. II, §4)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. II, §4 (primary)
• Lu (daughter of Tangaloa): Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. II, §2)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. II, §2 (primary)
• Lu (son of Tangaloa): Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. II, §4)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. II, §4 (primary)
• Moa: Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. II, §2)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. II, §2 (primary)
• Pili: Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. I, §2)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)
• Pili: Turner upoluGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. XXI, opening Pili narrative (primary)
• Turī: Genealogy recorded by Turner (ch. I, §7)George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §7 (primary)

Names and tradition associations

• Tangaloa the originator of men Samoan · resolvedGeorge Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §§2–3 (primary)
• Tangaloa the dweller in lands Samoan · resolvedGeorge Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §§2–3 (primary)
• Tangaloa the explorer of lands Samoan · resolvedGeorge Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §§2–3 (primary)

Variant accounts

• source review correctionThe former description declared Tagaloa kinless despite explicitly attested family accounts; Turner distinguishes unknown origin from demonstrated absence of parents.George Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§2,6–8 and ch. XXI (primary)
• source review correctionReplace an unqualified composite self-existence claim with the reviewed Turner passage; superseded Fraser attribution remains in correction history for separate primary review.George Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§2,6–8 and ch. XXI (primary)

Domains

• creation and cosmogony
• sky and heavens
• supreme sovereignty over the gods
• origin of the islands and mankind

Powers

• Make the heavens, the lands, the sea, and fresh water out of the primordial Expanse
• Bring the Samoan islands into being — flinging down rocks / fishing them up from the deep
• Form the first people and animate them with life

Relations

• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: KanaloaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Ta'aroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TakaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TanaoaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• father: Tangaloa the originator of menParent in the cited account.George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)
• mother: Great heavensParent in the cited account.George Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), ch. I, §2 (primary)
• spouse: Keeper of the heavensGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I, §2, row 9 (primary)
• spouse: SinaleanaGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. XXI, opening Pili narrative (primary)

Sources

• existence: G. Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (London, 1884), the creation traditions (secondary); A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03; Eng. The Samoa Islands, trans. T. Verhaaren), I (secondary)
• supreme-creator-from-the-expanse: J. Fraser, 'The Samoan Story of Creation,' Journal of the Polynesian Society 1 (1892): Tagaloa-faʻatutupu-nuʻu dwelling and creating in the Expanse (primary); J. B. Stair, Old Samoa (1897), on Tagaloa as chief and progenitor of the gods (secondary)