Talafale

Talafale is a heavenly son of Tangaloa Eitumatupua and one of the brothers who kill Ahoeitu. After Ahoeitu’s restoration the brothers accompany him to earth. Talafale receives the title Tui Faleua; his descendants are identified as Tui Pelehake.

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)

Parentage accounts

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• Reiter baker (Gifford)

  Divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.

  • father: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aE. 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. 27–29 (primary)

Domains

• sacred kingship

Epithets

• Tu'i Faleua Tongan · Tu'i Faleua · titleKing of the Second House (heir-presumptive line of the Tu'i Tonga)E. W. Gifford, Tongan Society (1929) (secondary)

Relations

• half sibling: 'Aho'eituEldest half-brother of Aho-eitu (shared father Tangaloa Eitumatupua; Aho-eitu born of the mortal Ilaheva, the brothers of celestial women). One of the five who slew and then disgorged Aho-eitu; afterward made the Tui Faleua.Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), Aho-eitu and his sky-brothers (secondary)
• father: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aE. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), pp. 25–29 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Gifford, E. W. Tongan Myths and Tales (Bishop Museum Bulletin 8, 1924), the Aho-eitu narrative and the sky-brothers (secondary); Collocott, E. E. V. Tales and Poems of Tonga (Bishop Museum Bulletin 46, 1928) (secondary)
• Talafale is a heavenly son of Tangaloa Eitumatupua and one of the brothers who kill Ahoeitu. After Ahoeitu’s restoration the brothers accompany him to earth. Talafale receives the title Tui Faleua; his descendants are identified as Tui Pelehake.: E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 27–29 (primary)