Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Discover Nafanua, the great war-goddess and heroine of Samoan mythology — the mighty woman-warrior and daughter of the god of the dead who liberated the
Discover Tagaloa (Tagaloa-lagi), the supreme creator-god of Samoan mythology — the god of the heavens who made the islands, sea and humankind, divine
Discover the Adaro, the malevolent merman-like sea-spirit of the Solomon Islands and the Pacific — a part-fish being that rides rainbows and waterspouts
Discover Dakuwaqa, the great shark-god of Fijian mythology — a fierce shapeshifting reef-guardian who, humbled by a giant octopus, swore to protect the
Discover Hina, the great goddess of Polynesia — the lady of the moon, patroness of women and the crafts, the divine feminine worshipped across the Pacific
Discover Maui, the great trickster-hero and demigod of Polynesia — who fished up the islands, snared the sun, stole fire for humankind, and died in his
Discover Tane, the great Polynesian god of the forests, birds and light — who separated the sky-father and earth-mother to bring light into the world and
Discover Tangaroa, the great Polynesian god of the sea — lord of the ocean across the Pacific, supreme creator of the cosmos in Tahiti, and the
Discover Tkashi-Mapa, the radiant Queen of the Forest in Megrelian Georgian folklore — mistress of the Colchian woods and its beasts, granter of the
Discover Ochokochi, the wild forest-man of Megrelian Georgian folklore — a hairy savage of the Colchian woods with an axe-like bone crest on its chest,
