'Ilaheva Va'epopua
Tongan · mortal · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Ilaheva, also called Vaepopua, meets Tangaloa Eitumatupua while fishing. She raises their son Ahoeitu at Popua and later shows him the casuarina route to his father in the sky. The Reiter–Baker passage does not name her parents.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- 'Aho'eitu: Reiter baker (Gifford)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)
Relations
- spouse: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aWife on earth of the sky-god; mother of 'Aho'eitu.Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), on 'Ilaheva as wife of Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'a (secondary)
Sources
- 'Ilaheva, called Va'epopua for her home at Popua, is the mortal Tongan woman of the older, autochthonous population whom the sky-god Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'a took to wife and who bore 'Aho'eitu, the first Tu'i Tonga, later showing him the toa tree by which to climb to his divine father.: 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)
- Ilaheva, also called Vaepopua, meets Tangaloa Eitumatupua while fishing. She raises their son Ahoeitu at Popua and later shows him the casuarina route to his father in the sky. The Reiter–Baker passage does not name her parents.: E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 25–27 (primary)