Tagaloa (the Sky-Creator)
Wallisian Futunan · deity · Wallisian Futunan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tagaloa (Tangaloa) is the pan-Polynesian sky-creator as received on 'Uvea (Wallis) and Futuna, recorded by Burrows: the god of the heavens who orders creation and from whom the chiefly families trace descent.
Domains
- sky and creation
Powers
- to raise the heavens from the earth
Sources
- Tagaloa is the high creator-god of 'Uvea and Futuna, the sky-deity who separates heaven and earth and from whom chiefly lines descend.: Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 145 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1937). (secondary); Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Futuna, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936). (secondary)