Mago (Ancestral Father of the Alo Lineage)

Mago is the ancestral father of the founding couple of Futuna's Alo tradition. Oral tradition recorded by Burrows relates that Mago and his wife Tafaleata came from Samoa, carried within a coconut, and settled at Alo; from them descend the war-god and first sau (paramount chief) Fakavelikele, whose title the paramount lineage of Alo, later renamed Tui Agaifo, still traces to itself. In the wider mythic genealogy Mago and Tafaleata are also named as parents of the protective goddess Finelasi and the nature-god Malafulafu. The narrative encodes the strong Samoan strand in Futunan origin traditions, distinct from the separate mythologies of Samoa itself.

Children

• Finelasi (Protective Goddess of Futuna)
• Malafulafu (Protector God of Nature)

Domains

• ancestry lineage

Powers

• to father the founding lineage of the Alo kingship of Futuna

Relations

• spouse: Tafaleata (Ancestral Mother of the Alo Lineage)
• father of: Fakavelikele (War-and-Rain God of Futuna)
• father of: Finelasi (Protective Goddess of Futuna)
• father of: Malafulafu (Protector God of Nature)

Sources

• Burrows, Edwin G. Ethnology of Futuna. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1936.
• Mayer, Raymond. 'Un millier de légendes aux îles Wallis et Futuna et divers centres d'intérêt de la tradition orale.' Journal de la Société des Océanistes 29, no. 38 (1973): 69-100.
• Abbal, Odon. 'Les mythes de Wallis et Futuna.' Nîmes: Académie de Nîmes (academia.edu working paper).