Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa
deity sky Tongan single tradition · 2
Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa was the god who served as king of the sky in Tongan cosmogony. He commanded some of the Tangaloa gods to instruct the sub-god Laufakanaʻa to descend to earth to become ruler of ʻAta and ruler of the winds.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Kohai, Koau, Momo, Tangaloa Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa, Māui, Tangaloa ʻEitumātupuʻa, Laufakanaʻa, Havea Hikuleʻo
- served by
- Tangaloa ʻEiki, Tangaloa Tufunga, Tangaloa ʻAtulongolongo, Laufakanaʻa, Tangaloa
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“At that time the god Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa was the king of the sky, and he commanded some of the Tangaloa gods to tell the faʻahikehe (sub-god) Laufakanaʻa to go down to the realm of light”
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“the Tongan island of ʻAta, the god Tamapoʻuliʻalamafoa is the king of the heavens. He is the one who ordered (through his servants all called Tangaloa (Tangaloa ʻEiki, Tangaloa Tufunga, and Tangaloa ʻAtulongolongo)) the sub-god Laufakanaʻa to become ruler of that island”
#32333 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001