Takaroa

Entered deity / male / immortal / primordial. Takaroa is the standard Tuamotuan dialect form of Tangaroa. Wired as spouse of Faumea; the sons Tu-nui-ka-rere (Rata-nui) and Turi-a-Faumea are recorded in parentRoles/notes (thin, not authored).

Children

• Tu-nui-ka-rere
• Turi-a-Faumea

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

Relations

• spouse: Faumea
• equated with: Tangaroa
• equated with: Kanaloa
• equated with: Tagaloa
• equated with: Ta'aroa
• equated with: Tangaloa 'Eitumatupu'a
• equated with: Tangaroa
• equated with: Tangaroa
• equated with: Tanaoa

Sources

• Emory, Kenneth P. 'Tuamotuan Concepts of Creation', Journal of the Polynesian Society 49 (1940), pp. 69-136
• Beckwith, Martha Warren. Hawaiian Mythology (1940) (quoting the Tuamotuan Faumea text)