Key Info

- Supreme ruler and creator of the universe including the sky, land, seas, fresh water, trees, people and many gods and goddesses

Brief Bio

In Samoan mythology, Tagaloa (also known as Tagaloa-Lagi or Tagaloa, Lagi of the Heavens/Skies) is generally accepted as the supreme ruler, the creator of the universe, the chief of all gods and the progenitor of other gods. Tagaloa Lagi dwelt in space and made the Heavens the sky, the land, the seas, the fresh water, the trees and the people. 

Tagaloa created the islands of Manu'a-tele, Savai'i, Upolu, Tonga, and Fiji, often by splitting a great rock. He is also credited with creating nine different heavens. He created humans from the decayed leaves of a vine (fue), initially shaping them from worms before giving them human form

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Samoans believed Tagaloa created nine heavens. Tagaloa's role as paramount deity in the Samoa pantheon bears similarities to the position of Ta'aroa in Tahiti and Io Matua Kore in New Zealand.