Mago (Ancestral Father of the Alo Lineage)
Wallisian Futunan · deity · Wallisian Futunan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
Domains
- ancestry lineage
Powers
- to father the founding lineage of the Alo kingship of Futuna
Relations
- spouse: Tafaleata (Ancestral Mother of the Alo Lineage)Mago and Tafaleata are the founding ancestral couple of the Alo tradition of Futuna.Burrows, Edwin G. Ethnology of Futuna. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1936. (secondary)
- father of: Fakavelikele (War-and-Rain God of Futuna)The war-god and founding sau Fakavelikele is counted among the children of Mago and Tafaleata.Burrows, Edwin G. Ethnology of Futuna. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1936. (secondary)
- father of: Finelasi (Protective Goddess of Futuna)The protective goddess Finelasi is likewise reckoned a daughter of Mago and Tafaleata.Abbal, Odon. 'Les mythes de Wallis et Futuna.' Nîmes: Académie de Nîmes (academia.edu working paper). (secondary)
- father of: Malafulafu (Protector God of Nature)The nature-god Malafulafu is counted among the children of Mago and Tafaleata.Abbal, Odon. 'Les mythes de Wallis et Futuna.' Nîmes: Académie de Nîmes (academia.edu working paper). (secondary)
Sources
- Mago is the ancestral father of the Futunan founding couple, said to have arrived from Samoa in a coconut with his wife Tafaleata and to have engendered the war-god Fakavelikele and the Alo kingship.: Burrows, Edwin G. Ethnology of Futuna. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1936. (secondary); 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. (secondary); Abbal, Odon. 'Les mythes de Wallis et Futuna.' Nîmes: Académie de Nîmes (academia.edu working paper). (secondary)