Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'a
Tongan · deity · mythic · deity
Entered as a deity of the Tangaloa sky-family. The senior 'Tangaloa' (one of the three cosmos-dividers with Hikule'o and Maui, who took the sky) and the descent from the Touia-'o-Futuna twin-pairs are recorded here rather than authored as separate figures, being outside the firmly-developed core. His developed myth — the toa-tree descent and the begetting of the first Tu'i Tonga — is firmly attested. Sex male; immortal.
Children
Domains
- sky and heavens
- divine ancestry and kingship
Powers
- descends from the sky to earth upon the toa tree
- sires the sacred line of the Tu'i Tonga
Relations
- sibling: Tangaloa-'Atulongolongo
- spouse: 'Ilaheva Va'epopua
- equated with: Tangaroa
- equated with: Kanaloa
- equated with: Tagaloa
- equated with: Ta'aroa
- equated with: Tangaroa
- equated with: Tangaroa
- equated with: Takaroa
- equated with: Tanaoa