Tui Fiti
deity earth Samoan mythology corroborated · 2
Tui Fiti is a deity who resides at Fagamalo village in the village district of Matautu. He is mentioned in Samoan mythology as a local god associated with that area. His specific functions are not detailed in the provided text.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1884 CE
- Attested period
- 1884 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented by missionary George Turner in 1884; burial ground visited by Fiji's Governor-General in 1978.
Relationships
Mentioned by
Sources
internet (1)
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“A figure of another legend is Tui Fiti, who resides at Fagamalo village in the village district of Matautu.”
#951 · extracted by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
“a spirit deity called Tui Fiti resides in Fagamalo, a village said to have once been settled by Fijians. The special abode of Tui Fiti was a mound within a grove of large and durable trees called ifilele”
#31279 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5