Tui Folaha

Tui Folaha 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. Tui Folaha and Tui Loloko govern and take charge of royal funerals.

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

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)

  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 Folaha Tongan · Tu'i Folaha · titleguardian of the person of the Tu'i TongaE. W. Gifford, Tongan Society (1929) (secondary)

Relations

• half sibling: 'Aho'eituHalf-brother of Aho-eitu (shared father Tangaloa Eitumatupua); youngest of the five sky-brothers and afterward one of the Falefa.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) (secondary); Collocott, E. E. V. Tales and Poems of Tonga (Bishop Museum Bulletin 46, 1928) (secondary)
• Tui Folaha 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. Tui Folaha and Tui Loloko govern and take charge of royal funerals.: E. W. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (1924), Reiter–Baker account, pp. 27–29 (primary)