Takaroa

In the Vahitahi account reported by Beckwith, Tagaroa marries Faumea and fathers Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-faumea. He rescues Turi’s wife Hina-a-rauriki from Rogo-tumu-here.

Children

• Tu-nui-ka-rere
• Turi-a-Faumea

Variant accounts

• source review correctionReplace internal scaffolding and outdated claims that the named children lack records with the source-specific narrative.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, p. 289, Vahitahi account (secondary)
• source review correctionDo not present unreviewed creation-chart ancestry or internal record-state notes as parentage.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, p. 289, Vahitahi account (secondary)
• source review correctionCorrect the child’s alternate name and remove internal record-state assertions.Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology (1940), ch. XIX, p. 289, Vahitahi account (secondary)

Domains

• the sea and the deep
• creator god

Powers

• lord of the sea and the creatures of the deep
• lures out the man-eating eels of Faumea as taught by her

Epithets

• Takaroa Tuamotuan · Takaroa · nameTuamotuan dialect form of Tangaroa, lord of the seaKenneth P. Emory, 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society (1940) (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: FaumeaThe eel-woman Faumea, mother of his sons Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-Faumea.Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940), on Tangaroa/Takaroa taking the eel-woman Faumea to wife (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: KanaloaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TagaloaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Ta'aroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'aCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TangaroaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)
• counterpart of: TanaoaCross-island counterpart comparison. This link does not identify the portrayals as one individual or transfer genealogy, cult, powers or objects.Comparative Polynesian mythology: reflexes of the same ancestral deity across the island groups (E. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891; R. D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology, 1989) (secondary)

Sources

• Takaroa (Tangaroa) is the Tuamotuan sea-creator god, reckoned among the great gods of the group; the firmly-attested Tuamotuan narrative is his voyage to the eel-woman Faumea, who teaches him to lure the man-eating eels from her body, becomes his wife, and bears him Tu-nui-ka-rere and Turi-a-Faumea.: Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136 (secondary); Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (quoting the Tuamotuan Faumea text) (secondary)