Tagaloa
Tagaloa proper noun: the chief deity of Samoan mythology; the creator of the universe and progenitor and chief of all other gods; also used in combination with epithets for certain deities brought into being by said creator.
Proper noun
Tagaloa
- The chief deity of Samoan mythology; the creator of the universe and progenitor and chief of all other gods; also used in combination with epithets for certain deities brought into being by said creator.
- Tagaloa the Creator then sat down, and produced Tagaloa the Unchangeable, and Tagaloa the Visitor of the Peoples, and Tagaloa the Prohibitor of the Peoples, and Tagaloa the Messenger,§ and Tuli and Logonoa.1887, Thomas Powell, A Samoan Tradition of Creation and the Deluge, Francis W. H. Petrie (editor), Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Volume 20, Victoria Institute, page 150
- 1987 [1892], Thomas Powell (collector and translator), [Translation of oral history, originally published 1892], quoted in 1987, Malama Meleisea, Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea (editors), Lagaga: A Short History of Western Samoa, University of the South Pacific, page 6,
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Questions about Tagaloa
- What does Tagaloa mean?
- Tagaloa means the chief deity of Samoan mythology; the creator of the universe and progenitor and chief of all other gods; also used in combination with epithets for certain deities brought into being by said creator.
- What part of speech is Tagaloa?
- Tagaloa is a proper noun.
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