Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Atua Fafine" | Polynesia | Creator being Tikopia / Polynesia |
God name "Atua Fafine" | Polynesian / Tikopia | Creator being. One of a pair with ATUA I RAROPUKA when the land of Tikopia was pulled up from the bottom of the ocean. They may have been there from the outset, or arrived on the back of a turtle from foreign parts. They engendered five sons, all gods.... |
"Atua Fafine Tikopia" | Polynesia | A creator being |
God name "Atua I Kafika" | Tikopia / Polynesia | Supreme sky god. Tikopia / Polynesia |
Supreme god name "Atua I Kafika" | Polynesian / Tikopia | Supreme god. Regarded as an intercessor rather than as ultimate creator or controller.... |
Supreme god name "Atua I Kafika Tikopia" | Polynesia | The supreme god viewed as a intercessor rather than a Controller |
Deity name "Atua I Raropuka" | Polynesia | Creator deity Tikopia / Polynesia |
God name "Atua I Raropuka" | Polynesian / Tikopia | Creator being. One of a pair with Atua Fafine when the land of Tikopia was pulled up from the bottom of the ocean. They may have been there from the outset, or arrived on the back of a turtle from foreign parts. They engendered five sons, all gods.... |
God name "Faivarongo" | Polynesian / Tikopia | God of mariners. The eldest son of a being known as Ariki Kafika Tuisifo, he is a patron and guardian of seafarers and is also regarded as the origin of the royal Tikopian lineage. Also known as the grandsire of the ocean. He is closely linked with the chthonic god TIFENUA and the sky god ATUA I KAFIKA.... |
God name "Faivarongo Tikopia" | Polynesia | A god of sailors |
God name "Pusi" | Polynesia | The family god of Tonuia, the first ancestor. At an opportune time Pusi would bite an enemy and bring upon him a lingering sickness from which he would waste away. Tikopia, Polynesia |
God name "Pusi" | Polynesian / Tikopia | Fish god. The apotheosis of the reef eel who probably accompanied the Tongan ancestors who migrated to Tikopia.... |
God name "Pusi Tikopia" | Polynesia | if this God, the apotheosis of the reef eel |
God name "Tifenua (lord of the land)" | Polynesian / Tikopia | Chthonic fertility god. He is linked with the sea god FAIVARONGO and with the sky god ATUA I KAFIKA. His father is Pusiuraura, a powerful deity personified by the reef eel, and his mother is one of the Sa-Nguti-Te-Moana. Also Pu-I-Te-Moana.... |
God name "Tifenua Tikopia" | Polynesia | Chthonic fertility god Polynesia |