Tagaloa (the Sky-Creator)

Wallisian Futunan · deity · Wallisian Futunan traditional religion; continuing · deity

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

Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 145 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1937).
Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Futuna, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936).

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