Taʼaroa is the supreme creator god in the mythology of the Society Islands of French Polynesia. While the use of the ʼeta is appropriate given the pronunciation of his name, it is often omitted in practice, as is typically the case with Tahitian words.
Taʼaroa is the supreme creator god in the mythology of the Society Islands of French Polynesia. While the use of the ʼeta is appropriate given the pronunciation of his name, it is often omitted in practice, as is typically the case with Tahitian words.
==The Myth== In the beginning, there was only Taʼaroa, creator of all, including himself. He waited alone in his shell, which appeared as an egg spinning in the empty endless void of the time before the sky, before the Earth, before the Moon, before the Sun, before the stars. He was bored, alone in his shell, and so he cracked it with a shake of his body and slid out of its confines, finding everything somber and silent outside, finding himself alone in the nothingness.
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