Tangaroa
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The god of the sea in Polynesian mythology, variously either the supreme deity or of status equal to Tane, and sometimes (e.g. in Samoan and Tongan traditions) revered as the creator god.
— Among the very many varieties of banana and plantain only the plantain belonged to Tangaroa on account of its redness and the uprightness of its fruit. Bananas of all kinds belonged to Rongo. The very name of the plantain, uatu, the upright fruit, testified to the dignity of the eldest of the gods. The plantain, being the kokira, or head of the great meika family, including the banana and plantain, does not bend its head, just as Tangaroa is the kokira or first in the family of the gods.
- The god of the sea, lakes and rivers, and of the creatures, especially fish, that live in them.
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