Takaroa
Tuamotuan · deity · primordial · deity
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
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