Tapauriki

The principal god of Arorae, a Polynesian outlier in Kiribati. Tapauriki supposedly originated from the sacred island of Manu'a in Samoa.

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References

Sources

  • Newell, J. E. (1895). "Coming of Nareau from Samoa to Tarawa." Journal of the Polynesian Society 4:231-235, p. 234.
  • Turner, George. (1884). Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific. London: Macmillan, p. 294.