Tagaloa is a sun god whose son Alo'alo married Sina, the daughter of Tuifiti.Young Lu argued with his uncle Moa and fled to earth which he called Samoa. Tagaloa's daughter Lu had a son, also called Lu. One legend tells that Tagaloa had two children, a son Moa and a daughter Lu.One became the island Savai'i and the other stone became the island of Upolu. Tagaloa features in many of Samoa's myths and legends. Otherwise, the still existing traditional genealogies (which include the old religious hierarchy within them) and culture of Samoa would be meaningless and dead. Or rather, the acceptance of the Christian God, Ieova/Jehovah, by the Samoan people can be seen as an expansion or extension of their spiritual hierarchy, where the god Tagaloa and all the gods beneath him are now seen by the Samoan people as being subject to the dominion of the Judeo-Christian God. The arrival of missionaries and Christianity in Samoa from 1830 saw the Samoan Lagi gods like Tagaloa replaced by the Christian deity. 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 Aotearoa New Zealand. Samoans believed Tagaloa created nine heavens. Tagaloa Lagi dwelt in space and made the Heavens the sky, the land, the seas, the fresh water, the trees and the people. 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.
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