'Aho'eitu

Ahoeitu, son of Ilaheva and Tangaloa Eitumatupua, climbs to the sky and is killed by his jealous brothers. His father directs the recovery of his remains and his return to life. He returns to earth as the first Tu‘i Tonga of divine descent, displacing an earlier worm-descended line.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

• father: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)
• mother: 'Ilaheva Va'epopuaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)

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.

• Reiter baker (Gifford)

  demigod by descent in this account.

  • father: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)
  • mother: 'Ilaheva Va'epopuaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)
  E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)

Variant accounts

• source review correctionThis source-bounded lifecycle follows the individually reviewed Reiter–Baker account. Earlier wording and citations remain in the correction history; claims about other accounts are not silently transferred.E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 25–29 (primary)
• source review correctionThe named translation supplied by the reviewed passage replaces an unsupported generalized etymology.E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 26 (primary)

Domains

• sacred kingship
• divine ancestry and kingship

Powers

• is restored to life from death and dismemberment
• founds the sacred line of the Tu'i Tonga
• climbs the great toa tree to the sky to find his divine father

Relations

• half sibling: MaliepoReciprocal of tongan_maliepo.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• half sibling: MatakeheReciprocal of tongan_matakehe.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• half sibling: TalafaleReciprocal of tongan_talafale.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• half sibling: Tui FolahaReciprocal of tongan_tuifolaha.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• half sibling: Tui LolokoReciprocal of tongan_tuiloloko.half-sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
• father: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)
• mother: 'Ilaheva Va'epopuaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)

Sources

• 'Aho'eitu, son of the sky-god Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'a and the mortal 'Ilaheva (Va'epopua), is the first Tu'i Tonga (sacred paramount) of divine descent: climbing the toa tree to the sky to find his father, he was killed and eaten by his jealous sky-brothers and then resurrected when Tangaloa made them disgorge his body into a kumete bowl, after which he was sent down to rule Tonga, his eldest brother becoming the Tu'i Faleua and the other four the Falefa.: Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924) (secondary); Collocott, E. E. V. Tales and Poems of Tonga (Bishop Museum Bulletin 46, 1928) (secondary)
• Ahoeitu, son of Ilaheva and Tangaloa Eitumatupua, climbs to the sky and is killed by his jealous brothers. His father directs the recovery of his remains and his return to life. He returns to earth as the first Tu‘i Tonga of divine descent, displacing an earlier worm-descended line.: E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 25–29 (primary)