Te Moana ('the Ocean', sometimes given as O Te Moana) was the sea-god of Tokelau and, after Monfat's account, the god second in rank, named as the son of the supreme god Tui Tokelau. He took visible form in the waterspout, and his power over the sea was both protective and destructive: when Fakaofo was attacked, the priest of Te Moana prayed to him to raise high waves and a strong wind to drive off and drown the enemy fleet. On the marae at Fakaofo his own tall coral slab stood beside that of his father, the two shrines marking the apex of the island pantheon.