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Tagaloa

Also known as Tangaloa, Tangaroa

Tagaloa, also Tangaloa, is the supreme creator god of Samoan and Tongan tradition, cognate with Tangaroa elsewhere in Polynesia. In Samoan myth he created the islands from rocks in the ocean and peopled them, and the title of Tuʻi Manuʻa was said to descend from him. Chiefly families across Samoa traced their lineages to him.

Tagaloa — Image: Stuartyeates · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 2 state histories

Tuʻi Tonga Empire Kingdom of Manuʻa

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tagaloa. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tagaloa
MLA: “Tagaloa.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tagaloa. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Tagaloa.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tagaloa.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Tagaloa’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tagaloa (Accessed: ).

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