Samoan
95 figures in the Samoan tradition
The Pantheon Registry records 95 figures for Samoan: 51 deities, 1 numen, 1 demigod, 42 mortals. Every entry carries at least one cited source. Attested across mythic, mythic prehistoric, primordial eras. The domains recorded most often here are tattooing tatau, war and protective power, ancestral lineage, beauty and maidenhood, creation and cosmogony, earthquakes, fishing and the sea harvest, healing and knowledge of plants.
Each name links to its cited detail page — parentage, children, domains, powers, epithets, relations and sources. For the interactive graph and map, open the app and filter to Samoan.
Deities
- Afternoon
- All the sides of heaven
- Beautiful clouds
- Boisterous winds
- Clear heavens
- Cloudless heavens
- Clouds clinging to the heavens
- Clouds flying about
- Cloudy heavens
- Confused winds
- Daylight
- Dew of life
- Earth
- Earth rocks
- Eighth heavens
- Flying clouds
- Gaogao o le tai
- Great heavens
- High rocks
- High winds
- Keeper of the heavens
- Land beating winds
- Langituavalu
- Le Feʻe
- Lu (daughter of Tangaloa)
- Lu (son of Lu and Gaogao)
- Lu (son of Tangaloa’s daughter)
- Lu (son of Tangaloa)
- Mafuiʻe
- Moa
- Moso
- Nafanua
- Noonday
- Pili
- Queen of earth
- Quiet winds
- Saveasiʻuleo
- Shadow
- Solid clouds
- Spread out heavens
- Sunset
- Taema
- Tagaloa
- Tangaloa the dweller in lands
- Tangaloa the explorer of lands
- Tangaloa the originator of men
- Tilafaiga
- Turī
- Twilight
- Ulufanuasesee
- Valevalenoa
Numina
Demigods
Mortals
- Afu lilo
- Ana
- Ariari
- Ata
- Ationgie
- Feepo
- Langi fiti pula
- Lau lano ma lau vai
- Manga
- Manufili
- Matofaana
- Muganitama
- Naituveta
- Pai (who reckoned the light)
- Pava
- Polaitu
- Samoa
- Sanga
- Savea
- Sea faetele
- Sina
- Sina (daughter of Tavaetele)
- Sina (Manu’a royal account)
- Sina i lau tolo
- Sina the bald
- Sina the powerful
- Sina the tropic bird
- Sinaleana
- Siu le lau mato
- Siu tau lalovasa
- Siu toso
- Siufeai
- Tapuaau
- Tau vai upolu
- Tavaetele
- Toe lauoo
- Tolufale
- Toso
- Tua
- Tuamasanga
- Uliaumi
- Veta