Taʼaroa
deity sky Tahitian single tradition · 2
Taʼaroa is the Tahitian god with all-pervading power. A legend reported by Professor Friedrich Ratzel in 1896 from Ra'iātea gave a picture of this deity's extensive influence.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1896 CE
- Attested period
- 1896 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Legend reported by Professor Friedrich Ratzel in 1896.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tana'oa, Taka'oa, Tangagoa, Tagroa Siria, Kanaloa, Tangaroa, Tagaloa, Tangaloa, Pou, Taŋaroa
- creator of
- Tumu-Nui
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Taʼaroa, Tahitian religion”
#31804 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In the beginning, there was only Taʼaroa, creator of all, including himself. He waited alone in his shell, which appeared as an egg spinning in the empty endless void of the time before the sky, before the Earth, before the Moon, before the Sun, before the stars.”
#32761 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001