Vatea

Also known as: Wakea · Family: the Tongan legends · First appears: Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 1

Life events

• In the Tongan legend, Vatea and Tongaiti quarreled over the child, each claiming it as his own.(Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 1)
  • With: Tongaiti the child (Chapter IV)
  • “Vatea (Wakea) and their ancestor Tongaiti quarreled concerning a child--each claiming it as his own.”
• In the Tongan legend, Vatea and Tongaiti struggled over the child and cut it in two.(Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 1)
  • With: Tongaiti the child (Chapter IV)
  • “In the struggle the child was cut in two.”
• In the Tongan legend, Vatea rolled his half of the child into a ball and threw it into the heavens, where it became the sun.(Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 1)
  • With: the child (Chapter IV) the sun
  • “Vatea squeezed and rolled the part he secured into a ball and threw it away, far up into the heavens, where it became the sun.”

Chapter IV · Maui Snaring the Sun · Part 1

• enemies with Tongaiti “In the struggle the child was cut in two.”

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Extracted from the original text of Legends of Ma-ui. Made with Rho MD.