Tangaroa
c. 1000 CE – 2026 CEattested
the central Pacific
- Polynesian
God of the sea and of fish across Polynesia, whose name shifts with the ocean it is spoken over: Tangaroa, Ta'aroa, Kanaloa. In some tellings he is the creator; in others he lost that argument to his brothers.
Known for
- one god under several names
- the sea and everything in it
- a creator in some tellings only
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.