| Tangaloa the craftsman was the God of the | | | | Hikuleo was bound by a great cord , one end |
| carpenters who use to throw food upward into | | | | being held by Tangaloa in the sky and the other |
| the air before eating as an offering saying "for | | | | by Maui in the underworld. The earth would have |
| Tangaloa". | | | | been destroyed by a visit by her ( Hikuleo) hence |
| The bird called plover is sacred to him, as this | | | | the cord, a precaution to keep her in her home of |
| was the shape Tangaloa would take to come to | | | | Pulotu. |
| the earth. | | | | 'Eua island was created by Tangaloa the great |
| The plover bird is also famous for pecking at | | | | craftsman, from the scraps he poured down to |
| Maui's eye as he lay on the beach at Lofanga in | | | | the sea from his workshop in the sky this was |
| Ha'apai hence the nick name of Maui as torn eye. | | | | the first of the Tongan islands formed. Also |
| Between Tangaloa, Hikuleo, and Maui were divided | | | | created from the scraps was the island of Ata |
| Pulotu ( heaven), the sky, and the underworld. | | | | where the first men were formed, three in |
| Hikuleo received Pulotu, Tongan heaven which | | | | number from a worm breed of a rotten plant |
| was the abode of the souls of chiefs and great | | | | that was grown from a seed that was brought |
| people. To Tangaloa was assigned the sky, and to | | | | by Tangaloa from heaven to the earth. |
| Maui the underworld. | | | | |